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America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900
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, …
Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914
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 …
Making the Palace Machine Work
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 …
The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse
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 …
The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong
Diaspora transformed the urban terrain of colonial societies, creating polyglot worlds out of neighborhoods, workplaces, recreational clubs, and public spheres. It was within these …
Held's History of Sumbawa
Sumbawa, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, history
Writing Japan's War in New Guinea
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 …
The End of Silence
In the late 1960s, between one and two million people were killed by Indonesian president Suharto's army in the name of suppressing communism-and more than fifty years later, the …
The Javanese Way of Law
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 …
The United States and Cultural Heritage Protection in Japan (1945-1952)
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 …
Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 rediscovers an intense internationalism — and charts its loss — in the Indonesian Revolution. …
Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation
Japan, World War II, Occupation, Oita Prefecture, B29 bombing