Author: D. J. M. Tate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Rajah Brooke's Borneo
Author: D. J. M. Tate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Rajah Brooke
Author: Sir Spenser St. John
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Heads of state
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Heads of state
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak
Author: James (Rajah of Sarawak)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarawak
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarawak
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Kalimantaan
Author: C. S. Godshalk
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805055344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent cultures on earth, often with startling results: pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing where least expected. Into this world flowed a small tribe of adventurers, fugitives, criminals, and saints-- the madly talented and simply mad. And the women followed: wives and would-be wives, spinster nursemaids and heartless schemers, the rigidly virtuous and the virtually desperate. And always, the children, innocents too often the victims of an elemental nature both lush and deadly. Kalimantaan is the story of this world, these people. But the deeper story resides in the realm of the heart. It is about love in absurd conditions, the tenacity of it as well as our ability to miss it repeatedly and with perverse genius.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805055344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent cultures on earth, often with startling results: pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing where least expected. Into this world flowed a small tribe of adventurers, fugitives, criminals, and saints-- the madly talented and simply mad. And the women followed: wives and would-be wives, spinster nursemaids and heartless schemers, the rigidly virtuous and the virtually desperate. And always, the children, innocents too often the victims of an elemental nature both lush and deadly. Kalimantaan is the story of this world, these people. But the deeper story resides in the realm of the heart. It is about love in absurd conditions, the tenacity of it as well as our ability to miss it repeatedly and with perverse genius.
Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha
Author: Helen Godfrey
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004357289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha, Helen Godfrey traces the connections between submarine telegraphy and the peoples of Singapore and Sarawak (Borneo) who supplied 'gutta percha', the latex insulating the world network of undersea telegraph cables. The book examines the complex inter-relationships linking metropolitan and local environments in a trade once described as a matter of interest to the whole civilized world. Using previously untapped corporate and official archives, trade data and a rich documentary record, the study explores the roles of cable producers, scientists, administrators, and local Chinese and indigenous traders. It reveals how a global trade may transcend technological, geographic and cross-cultural challenges, even hostilities. Motivations and outcomes are more complex than simple commercial gain.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004357289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha, Helen Godfrey traces the connections between submarine telegraphy and the peoples of Singapore and Sarawak (Borneo) who supplied 'gutta percha', the latex insulating the world network of undersea telegraph cables. The book examines the complex inter-relationships linking metropolitan and local environments in a trade once described as a matter of interest to the whole civilized world. Using previously untapped corporate and official archives, trade data and a rich documentary record, the study explores the roles of cable producers, scientists, administrators, and local Chinese and indigenous traders. It reveals how a global trade may transcend technological, geographic and cross-cultural challenges, even hostilities. Motivations and outcomes are more complex than simple commercial gain.
Power and Prowess
Author: JH Walker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000257274
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A significant reinterpretation of Sarawak history, Power and Prowess explores the network of power, economic and ritual relationships that developed on the northwest coast of Borneo in the mid-nineteenth century, from which a coalition led by James Brooke established the state of Sarawak. Where many authors placed Brooke in the context of nineteenth century British imperialism, this study perceives him in the context of Bornean cultures and political economies. Brooke emerges from the historical record as a 'man of prowess', with the author identifying important ritual sources of Brooke's power among Malays, Bidayuh and Ibans, sources which derived from and expressed indigenous cultural traditions about fertility, health and status. Drawing on conceptual frameworks from political science, as well as recent southeast Asian historiography, Power and Prowess offers a detailed political history of the period and new interpretations of Brooke's career. This study also retrieves from the historical sources previously concealed narratives which reflect the interests, priorities and activities of Sarawak people themselves. J.H. WALKER lectures in political science at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000257274
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A significant reinterpretation of Sarawak history, Power and Prowess explores the network of power, economic and ritual relationships that developed on the northwest coast of Borneo in the mid-nineteenth century, from which a coalition led by James Brooke established the state of Sarawak. Where many authors placed Brooke in the context of nineteenth century British imperialism, this study perceives him in the context of Bornean cultures and political economies. Brooke emerges from the historical record as a 'man of prowess', with the author identifying important ritual sources of Brooke's power among Malays, Bidayuh and Ibans, sources which derived from and expressed indigenous cultural traditions about fertility, health and status. Drawing on conceptual frameworks from political science, as well as recent southeast Asian historiography, Power and Prowess offers a detailed political history of the period and new interpretations of Brooke's career. This study also retrieves from the historical sources previously concealed narratives which reflect the interests, priorities and activities of Sarawak people themselves. J.H. WALKER lectures in political science at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
A History of Sarawak Under Its Two White Rajahs, 1839-1908
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak
Author: James (Rajah of Sarawak)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak
Author: Sir James Brooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarawak
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarawak
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Ten Years in Saráwak
Author: Charles (Rajah of Sarawak)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarawak
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarawak
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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