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The Stone Age of Indonesia
The first edition of The Stone Age of Indonesia was published as Volume 21 (1957) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
The Making of Middle Indonesia : Middle Classes in Kupang town, 1930s-1980s
What holds Indonesia together? In The Making of Middle Indonesia, Gerry van Klinken develops an innovative historical explanation that looks beyond national elites to middle classes in provincial towns. Readership: The book should be of interest to…
The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia
The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia
Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894–1945
Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin’s covert operations in his hunt for supremacy.
By the late 1920s…
By the late 1920s…
Performing Power : Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia
"Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the colonizer and colonized. Arnout Van der Meer's…
On The Frontiers of History
Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when…
Japanese Diplomacy and East Asian International Politics, 1918–1931
This book provides an overall picture of East Asian international politics during the early interwar period and examines the various foreign policy trends of the major powers involved, including Japan, China, Britain, the United States, and the…
Japan–China Relations in the Modern Era
From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has long learned many things from Chinese civilization, and since the modern era China began to learn from Japan. In the twenty-first…
International Competition in China, 1899-1991
The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of the Open Door Policy
China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive 'spheres of influence' in…
Global History with Chinese Characteristics: Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796
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Perez-Garcia, Manuel
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English
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This open access book considers a pivotal era in…