Author: Robert Pringle
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Rajahs and Rebels
Author: Robert Pringle
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
Author: Gareth Knapman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315452162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book explores colonial debates on race, liberalism, colonial expansion and equality in South-East Asia, focusing on the writings of John Crawfurd, one of the British Empire’s leading racial theorists and colonial administrators in Asia.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315452162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book explores colonial debates on race, liberalism, colonial expansion and equality in South-East Asia, focusing on the writings of John Crawfurd, one of the British Empire’s leading racial theorists and colonial administrators in Asia.
Rajahs and Rebels
Author: Robert Pringle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East
Author: S. Nair-Venugopal
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137009284
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137009284
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization.
Malaysia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Administrators and Their Service
Author: Naimah S. Talib
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Administrators and their Service is a historical study of the Sarawak Administrative Service.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Administrators and their Service is a historical study of the Sarawak Administrative Service.
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.
In Search of the Rain Forest
Author: Candace Slater
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner
A History of Sarawak Under Its Two White Rajahs, 1839-1908
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
White Rajah
Author: Cassandra Pybus
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702228575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702228575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb