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Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea
European traders and soldiers established a foothold on Timor in the course of the seventeenth century, motivated by the quest for the commercially vital sandalwood and the intense competition between the Dutch and the Portuguese. Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea focuses on two centuries of contacts between the indigenous polities on Timor and the early colonials, and covers the period 1600-1800. In contrast with most previous studies, the book treats Timor as a historical region in its own right, using a wide array of Dutch, Portuguese and other original sources, which are compared with the comprehensive corpus of oral tradition recorded on the island. From this rich material, a lively p...
Responding to the West
"The nine essays of this volume, spanning from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, highlight the workings of, and reactions to, colonial domination in Asian contexts. The scholars, which include Victoria Haskins of the University of Newscastle, use a range of social science history methods to explore new paths to colonial history. How were individuals, groups, and social categories able to order their lives in the face of the implementation of external dominance? In other words, what was the agency enabling them to interact with, adapt to, use, counteract and in the end defeat colonialism? The essays emphasize colonialism as a multifaceted historical phenomenon which has taken a number of mutually incompatible forms. The various texts thus reflect on both the "early" colonialism build on indirect and informal practices, and the later forms marked by a high degree of authoritarian control"--Publisher's description.
Responding to the West
The international contributors to this penetrating volume apply fresh perspectives and new methodologies to the Asian colonial experience, from the eighteenth century through the post World War II decolonization. Historiography, gender, military studies, finance, and issues of race and class all feature in this wide-ranging account of the diversity of human relationships forged by the colonial presence. For all of its features of structural oppression, colonialism was not a one-way communicative process, as this volume demonstrates through its analysis of the ever-shifting roles of colonizer and colonized.
Held's History of Sumbawa
Indologist Gerrit Jan Held wrote this book in 1955 but died before it could be published; this volume represents its first translation into English, and includes extensive footnotes that set it in context of current research.
Savu
The book focuses on the historical trajectories of Savu, an island in the Nusa Tenggara Timur province, eastern Indonesia. While Savu is a relatively small island, aspects of its society, as well as this study's blend of anthropology and historical method, makes this book of fundamental relevance to the ongoing comparative examination of Austronesian-speaking populations from Madagascar to Hawaii and from Taiwan to Timor. This book brings together Duggan's detailed understanding of Savunese society and genealogies with Hägerdal's deep knowledge of the Dutch and Portuguese archives to understand the overlap between these perspectives on Savu's past. The text discusses the precolonial period ...
Piracy in World History Hb
1. The present volume brings together some of the leading scholars of piracy and related forms of maritime violence in different global contexts, including East Asia, the Indian Ocean World, the Mediterranean and the Americas. 2. In this we bring the different geographic and thematic areas of study into mutual conversation. 3, We thus stimulate further explorations in the connective as well as the comparative aspects of piracy in long, global and colonial, historical perspective.
Vietnams historia
”Suverän Vietnambok … Ett gediget, balanserat och heltäckande arbete.” Smålänningen Vietnams historia är den första boken på svenska som skildrar landets hela historia – det är en mängd växlande öden som sträcker sig över nästan tretusen år. Boken inleds med de halvmytiska vietnamesiska rikena under det första årtusendet f.Kr, fortsätter med det kinesiska herraväldet under medeltiden, fram till 1800-talet, då den franska koloniseringen och utsugningspolitiken tog fart. Under 1900-talet växte sig den vietnamesiska nationalismen stark och landets historia kännetecknades av inre och yttre strider som kulminerade i det blodiga Vietnamkriget. Ett krig som gjorde det ...
Kinas historia
»En utmärkt, välskriven och lättillgänglig modern översikt över den kinesiska historien.« Skaraborgs Allehanda Kinas dragningskraft blir allt större. Västerländska företag investerar i landet och dess gåtfulla kultur lockar till sig turister. Kinas historia är den första moderna sammanställningen på svenska om detta stora och häpnadsväckande land. Bokens fokus ligger på det moderna Kina, men skildringen rör sig från forntiden till våra dagar. Hans Hägerdal börjar i de äldsta kinesiska civilisationerna, riksenandet 221 f Kr, de sju huvudepokerna i det kejserliga Kina och går vidare med den imperialistiska framryckningen på 1800-talet med förlorade krig, upprorsrö...
The Pearl Frontier
Remarkable for its meticulous archival research and moving life stories, The Pearl Frontier offers a new way of imagining Australian historical connections with Indonesia. This compelling view from below of maritime mobility demonstrates how, in the colonial quest for the valuable pearl-shell, Australians came to rely on the skill and labor of Indonesian islanders, drawing them into their northern pearling trade empire. From the 1860s onward the pearl-shell industry developed alongside British colonial conquests across Australia's northern coast and prompted the Dutch to consolidate their hold over the Netherlands East Indies. Inspired by tales of pirates and priceless pearls, the pearl fron...
