Rajahs and Rebels
Author | : Robert Pringle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Iban (Bornean people) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Pringle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Iban (Bornean people) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. Nair-Venugopal |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2012-05-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137009284 |
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.
Author | : Gareth Knapman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2016-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315452154 |
The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the key racial theorists in the British Empire. He approached colonialism as a radical liberal, proposing universal voting for all races in British colonies and believing all races should have equal legal rights. Yet at the same time, he also believed that races represented distinct species of people, who were unrelated. This book charts the development of Crawfurd’s ideas, from the brief but dramatic period of British rule in Java, to his political campaigns against James Brooke and British rule in Borneo. Central to Crawfurd’s political battles were the debates he had with his contemporaries, such as Stamford Raffles and William Marsden, over the importance of race and his broader challenge to universal ideas of history, which questioned the racial unity of humanity. The book taps into little explored manuscripts, newspapers and writings to uncover the complexity of a leading nineteenth-century political and racial thinker whose actions and ideas provide a new view of British liberal, colonial and racial thought.
Author | : Naimah S. Talib |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Administrators and their Service is a historical study of the Sarawak Administrative Service.
Author | : Candace Slater |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2004-03-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822385279 |
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
Author | : Cassandra Pybus |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780702228575 |
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