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Sir Charles Ralph Boxer FBA GCIH (8 March 1904 – 27 April 2000) was a British historian of Dutch and Portuguese maritime and colonial history, especially in relation to South Asia and the Far East. In Hong Kong he was the chief spy for the British army intelligence in the years leading up to World War II .
C.R. Boxer describe show, three centuries ago, the great Dutch commander was mortally wounded in battle off the coast of Sicily.
A year after the death of the man considered to be the greatest historian of the Portuguese expansion abroad, the Orient Foundation printed Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life.
Boxer was the ranking British intelligence officer in Hong Kong in the late 1930s as the Pacific war loomed. Although severely wounded during the invasion and later imprisoned, he helped lead covert resistance against the Japanese occupation.
24 de dic. de 2009 · C. R. Boxer: The Portuguese seaborne empire, 1415–1825. (The History of Human Society.) xxvi, 426 pp., 16 plates, map. London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1969. 55s. | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | Cambridge Core.
Charles Boxer had had an extraordinarily varied and active life: his travels in Asia, his life in the army, his Japanese experiences, intelligence work in Hong Kong, love affairs, war, wounds, prison camp, torture, and solitary confinement - all experiences built onto the social foundations of the minor
Charles Boxer, the most distinguished scholar of seventeenth-century Portuguese and Dutch colonial history of his generation, was a Fellow of the British Academy. He had been an army officer and in 1930 was seconded to the Far East as a language officer to specialise in Japanese.
