| Description |
1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
ICAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 5 |
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ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181). |
| Contents |
Introduction: New Paths of Colonial History / Hans Hägerdal -- The Future of the Past, the Past of the Future: History in Southeast Asia / Vincent Houben -- European Adventurers and Changes in the Indian Military System / Ram Krishna Tandon -- The Exile of the Liurai: A Historiographical Case Study from Timor / Hans Hägerdal -- Africans in Asia: The Discourse of 'Negritos' in Early Nineteenthcentury Southeast Asia / Sandra Khor Manickam -- Women's Education and Empowerment in Colonial Bengal / Rachana Chakraborty -- Her Old Ayah: The Transcolonial Significance of the Indian Domestic Worker in India and Australia / Victoria Haskins -- The Chinese, the Indians and the French Exchange Control during the French Indochinese War or How to Endure, Fight and Mock the Colonial Power (1945-1954) / Daniel Leplat -- Living the Colonial Lifestyle: Australian Women and Domestic Labour in Occupied Japan 1945-1952 / Christine de Matos -- Decolonisation and the Origin of Military Business in Indonesia / Bambang Purwanto. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Colonies -- Asia.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Humanities.
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History.
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History: specific events and topics.
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Colonialism and imperialism.
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National liberation and independence, post-colonialism.
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Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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Society and culture: general.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Colonies. (OCoLC)fst00868456
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Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240495
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| Indexed Term |
Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment |
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Culture and history |
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History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hägerdal, Hans.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Responding to the West. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009 9789089640932 (OCoLC)318873138 |
| ISBN |
9789048508204 (electronic bk.) |
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9048508207 (electronic bk.) |
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9789089640932 |
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9089640932 |
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