Genesis And Nemesis Of The First Dutch Colonial Empire In Asia And South Africa 1596 1811
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| Author | : Gerrit Knaap |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2022-12-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9004528008 |
This monograph offers a thought-provoking thematic examination and chronological survey of the early modern Dutch overseas colonial expansion and downfall in Asia and in South Africa, among other institutional frameworks through the VOC, stressing its colonial character rather than company and trade features.
| Author | : Gerrit Knaap |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-12-22 |
| Genre | : Asia |
| ISBN | : 9789004527997 |
This monograph offers a thought-provoking thematic examination and chronological survey of the early modern Dutch overseas colonial expansion and downfall in Asia and in South Africa, among other institutional frameworks through the VOC, stressing its colonial character rather than company and trade features.
| Author | : Weichung Cheng |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2013-05-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 900425353X |
Approaching its demise, the Ming imperial administration enlisted members of the Cheng family as mercenaries to help in the defense of the coastal waters of Fukien. Under the leadership of Cheng Chih-lung, also known as Nicolas Iquan, and with the help of the local gentry, these mercenaries became the backbone of the empire’s maritime defense and the protectors of Chinese commercial interests in the East and South China Seas. The fall of the Ming allowed Cheng Ch’eng-kung—alias Coxinga—and his sons to create a short-lived but independent seaborne regime in China’s southeastern coastal provinces that competed fiercely, if only briefly, with Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English merchants during the early stages of globalization.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 537 |
| Release | : 2014-08-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004279512 |
Other Fronts, Other Wars? goes beyond the Western Front geographically and delves behind the trenches focusing on the social and cultural history of the First World War: it covers front experiences in the Ottoman and Russian Armies, captivity in Japan and Turkey, occupation at the Eastern war theatre, medical history (epidemics in Serbia, medical treatment in Germany) and war relief (disabled soldiers in Austria). It studies the home front from the aspect of gender (loosing manliness), transnational comparisons (provincial border towns) and culture (home front entertainments in European metropoles) and gives insight on how attitudes were shaped through intellectual wars of scientists and through commemoration in Serbia. Thus the volume offers a wide range of new approaches to the history of the First World War. Contributors are Kate Arrioti, Altai Atlı, Gunda Barth-Scalmani, Joachim Bürgschwentner, Wolfram Dornik, Indira Durakovic, Matthias Egger, Maciej Górny, Andrea Griffante, Ke-chin Hsia, Rudolf Kučera, Eva Krivanec, Stephan Lehnstaedt, Bernhard Liemann, Tilman Lüdke, Andrea McKenzie, Mahon Murphy, Nicolas Patin, Livia Prüll, Philipp Rauh, Paul Simmons, Christian Steppan and Katarina Todić.
| Author | : Thomas French |
| Publisher | : Global Oriental |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2014-06-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004266828 |
Based upon years of research undertaken in the US Occupation archives, this book provides a history of Japan’s National Police Reserve (NPR), the precursor of today’s Ground Self Defense Force (GSDF). It is the first ever comprehensive and exclusively focused history of the force in any language. The book examines the domestic and international origins of the force, the American constabulary model upon which it was based, the NPR's character and operation, and its evolution into the GSDF. This volume provides numerous insights and fresh perspectives on the character of the NPR, the origins of the SDF, the US Occupation of Japan and Cold War era US-Japan relations.
| Author | : Seymour Drescher |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 939 |
| Release | : 2009-07-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139482963 |
In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement that successfully challenged the institution at the peak of its dynamism. Within another century a new surge of European expansion constructed Old World empires under the banner of antislavery. However, twentieth-century Europe itself was inundated by a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than its earlier system of New World slavery. This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.
| Author | : William Woodruff |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2014-01-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781349122349 |
| Author | : Trench H. Johnson |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2019-11-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
'Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings' is a one-of-a-kind encyclopedic work that offers plain statements of facts on the origins of popular phrases and names, alphabetically organized for easy reference. Trench H. Johnson's expertise in the subject matter, acquired through years of omnivorous reading and patient inquiry, has culminated in a comprehensive and fascinating compilation of linguistic curiosities that is sure to satisfy the curiosity of any word lover. From the history of place-names to the evolution of expressions, including a plethora of slang terms and Americanisms, this book offers a wealth of knowledge that opens up the history of peoples and civilizing influences.
| Author | : James Gleick |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2011-03-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0307379574 |
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
| Author | : Jason Philip Coy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Culture |
| ISBN | : 9781803161419 |
A brief history of Germany, Second edition provides a clear, lively, and comprehensive account of the history of Germany from ancient times to the present day.
