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Held's History of Sumbawa
An Annotated Translation
Inbunden, 2017
2197 kr
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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.
Held's History of Sumbawa
An Annotated Translation
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Sumbawa is a medium-sized island in eastern Indonesia which has a particularly interesting past. In the premodern era it lay on the trade routes that connected the north coasts of the islands of Melaka and Java with the spice-producing areas in Maluku, while Sumbawa itself exported horses, sappan …
America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900
Before the Pivot
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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A century before the Philippines came under American control, Americans were already travelling to Southeast Asia regularly. This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through …
Beyond Borders
Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 rediscovers an intense internationalism — and charts its loss — in the Indonesian Revolution. Momentous far beyond Indonesia itself, and not just for elites, generals, or diplomats, the Indonesian anti-colonial …
Making the Palace Machine Work
Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire
Av Martina Siebert, Kai Jun Chen m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and technology by tracing the workings of the Imperial Household Department (Neiwufu) in the Qing court and …
Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914
Av Anne Raffin
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914 revisits and analyses the earlier part of the Third Republic, when France granted citizenship rights to Indians in Pondicherry. This work of historical sociology explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons …
Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria
Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands
Av Jiani He
Häftad, 2026
727 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the Jirim League witnessed a linguistic struggle between Manchu, Mongol, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian powers. The Qing Empire envisioned a trilingual educational system, with the aim of improving the Jirim Mongols’ ability to read Chinese, Manchu, and …
Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hyper-nationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their …
Javanese Way of Law
Early Modern Sloka Phenomena
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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The author's investigation of early-modern Javanese law reveals that judicial authority does not come from the contents of legal titles or juridical texts, but from legal maxims and variations thereof. A century and a half ago Simon Keyzer, a recognized scholar of Javanese law, noted that …
Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong
A Century of Transimperial Drifting
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Diaspora transformed the urban terrain of colonial societies, creating polyglot worlds out of neighborhoods, workplaces, recreational clubs, and public spheres. It was within these spaces that communities reimagined and reshaped their public identities vis-à-vis emerging government policies and …
United States and Cultural Heritage Protection in Japan (1945-1952)
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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One of the untold stories of the American military occupation of Japan, from 1945 to 1952, is that of efforts by the Arts and Monuments Division of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), for the preservation of Japan’s cultural heritage. While the role of Allies after WWII in salvaging …
Writing Japan's War in New Guinea
The Diary of Tamura Yoshikazu
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone. Devoid of family contact, perplexed by the unfamiliarity of his environment, deprived of even meagre amenities and faced with the spectre of debilitating illness and starvation, this solitary soldier commenced a …
Educating China in Europe
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modernity, 1907-1946
Inbunden, 2026
2586 kr
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This book offers the first comprehensive study of cosmopolitanism in education between China and Europe from the late Qing to the Republican period.Drawing on previously untapped archives, it examines transnational Sino-French educational initiatives led by the World Society, an anarchist learning …
Investigation into the History of Jingdezhen’s Folk Porcelains
Tradition and Changes
Av Lili Fang
Inbunden, 2026
2586 kr
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This book seeks to understand the evolution of Jingdezhen handicraft culture from the micro to the macro perspective by comparing the recently arising ceramic workshops with the traditional approach to the craft.Following 1978 and China’s economic reforms, Jingdezhen, known as “the capital city of …
Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism.
Beyond Borders
Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950
Inbunden, 2018
2197 kr
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Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 rediscovers an intense internationalism - and charts its loss - in the Indonesian Revolution.
Three Months in Mao's China
Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
Av Erik-Jan Zürcher, Kim van der Zouw
Häftad, 2017
471 kr
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Both a fascinating account by an informed outsider and a reminder of just how much China and the rest of the world have changed over the last fifty years, this is essential reading for anyone interested in East Asia and Asian history as a whole.
Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation
Av Ran Ying Porter, Edgar Porter
Inbunden, 2017
2197 kr
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This book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on Oita prefecture.
Dutch and English East India Companies
Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
Av Adam Clulow, Tristan Mostert
Inbunden, 2018
2197 kr
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A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.
End of Silence
Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia
Inbunden, 2017
2197 kr
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This book presents the stories of individuals, who were - and still are - affected by violence and stigmatisation in the name of suppressing communism in Indonesia during the late 1960s.
Dutch and English East India Companies
Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
Av Adam Clulow, Tristan Mostert
Häftad, 2019
787 kr
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A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.
America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900
Before the Pivot
Inbunden, 2018
2586 kr
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This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through their own cultural-political lenses.
Writing Japan's War in New Guinea
The Diary of Tamura Yoshikazu
Inbunden, 2019
2264 kr
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Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone. Profoundly unsettled by all that appears to be at odds with the kokutai ideology, Tamura employs strategies through the vehicle of his diary to enable him to remain committed to the pathway of death on behalf of the …
Javanese Way of Law
Early Modern Sloka Phenomena
Inbunden, 2019
1962 kr
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The author's investigation of early-modern Javanese law reveals that judicial authority does not come from the contents of legal titles or juridical texts, but from legal maxims and variations thereof. A century and a half ago Simon Keyzer, a recognized scholar of Javanese law, noted that …
Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation
Av Ran Ying Porter, Edgar Porter
Häftad, 2018
637 kr
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This book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on Oita prefecture.
Making the Palace Machine Work
Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire
Av Martina Siebert, Kai Jun Chen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2197 kr
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Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and technology by tracing the workings of the Imperial Household Department ( Neiwufu ) in the Qing court and …
End of Silence
Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia
Häftad, 2019
637 kr
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This book presents the stories of individuals, who were - and still are - affected by violence and stigmatisation in the name of suppressing communism in Indonesia during the late 1960s.
United States and Cultural Heritage Protection in Japan (1945-1952)
Inbunden, 2019
2102 kr
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One of the untold stories of the American military occupation of Japan, from 1945 to 1952, is that of efforts by the Arts and Monuments Division of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), for the preservation of Japan’s cultural heritage. While the role of Allies after WWII in salvaging …
Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914
Av Anne Raffin
Inbunden, 2022
2197 kr
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This work of historical sociology explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British India, especially the Madras Presidency, as well as the rest of the French empire, as a means of demonstrating how unique the practice of granting such rights was.
Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria
Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands
Av Jiani He
Inbunden, 2025
2197 kr
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This book challenges the notion of Chinese language reform as a story of linear progression towards national monolingualism, highlights the power of multilingualism in Chinese nationalist discourse from a peripheral, non-Han Chinese perspective, and questions the extent to which national languages …
