A History of Brunei

A History of Brunei is the first full-length study of the Brunei Sultanate from earliest times to the present. It addresses long-standing controversies over the antecedents of the Brunei state, the date of the conversion to Islam, the reigns of the early Sultans, the Spanish attack of 1578, and the troubled decades of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and treats more recent events including the Japanese Occupation and the crises associated with the Brunei Revolt and the creation of Malaysia. The story ends with the atttainment of full independence in 1984 and a survey of the reign since then of Sultan Sir Hassanal Bolkiah.