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Book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas  1604 1606

Download or read book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606 written by William Foster and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas  1604 1606

Download or read book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606 written by Sir Henry Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas  1604 1606

Download or read book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606 written by Sir Henry Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas  1604 1606

Download or read book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606 written by Henry Middleton (Sir, m) and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606

Download or read book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606 written by William Foster and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas  1604 1606

Download or read book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606 written by Sir William Foster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and enlarged edition, with an Introduction and Notes. For the previous edition, see First Series 19 (1854). The additional material includes an account by Edmund Scott of events at Bantam, 1603-05, and his description of Java. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1943.

Book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas  1604 1606   Consisting of  The Last East Indian Voyage        An Exact Discourse of the Subtilties     of the East Indians     Written by Edmund Scott  and Other Contemporary Material   A New and Enlarged Edition with an Introduction and Notes by Sir William Foster

Download or read book The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606 Consisting of The Last East Indian Voyage An Exact Discourse of the Subtilties of the East Indians Written by Edmund Scott and Other Contemporary Material A New and Enlarged Edition with an Introduction and Notes by Sir William Foster written by Sir Henry MIDDLETON and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The voyages of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606

Download or read book The voyages of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604 1606 written by Sir William Foster and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amazons  Savages  and Machiavels

Download or read book Amazons Savages and Machiavels written by Matthew Dimmock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade links, such as Turkey and the Moluccan islands, and of places that featured just as significantly in the early modern English imagination: from Ireland to Russia and the Far East, from Calais to India and Africa, from France and Italy to the West Indies. The writings reveal painstaking attempts to understand the 'other' as well as ignorance and prejudice, surprising connections alongside phobic reactions to difference, the desire to co-operate alongside the desire to extinguish and exploit. The second edition of Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is significantly revised and expanded, twenty years after the first edition helped to establish the field of travel and colonial writing in English. The anthology includes substantial new chapters of extracts on 'The North', detailing the important Arctic voyages and search for the elusive North-West Passage; 'Islamic West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean', includes new material on Persia, Russia, and Jerusalem; 'England from Elsewhere' includes observations of England and the English from European travellers; and the epilogue on women travellers, explores the importance in particular of Lady Catherine Whetenhall's journey to Italy, recorded after her early death. The chapter on Africa includes new material on the Congo, Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and the chapter on East Asia and the South Seas contains new material on China and Japan. There are new images of West African figures and Sir Anthony and Lady Shirley in Persian courtly attire. The introduction has been carefully revised to take into account the wealth of scholarship on English perceptions of Asia and the Mediterranean, and the analysis of race and racial identity has been expanded in line with contemporary concerns. Headnotes and notes have been revised and expanded throughout the text. The anthology is the most comprehensive single-volume available in English, and, with its newly modernized text and reader-friendly apparatus, is designed to appeal to the general as well as the specialist reader. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of travel, colonial writing, and racial politics at the time of the first British Empire.

Book Smallholders and Stockbreeders

Download or read book Smallholders and Stockbreeders written by P. Boomgaard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of Southeast Asia have traditionally preferred to write about politics and culture rather than economics and ecology, and where they have looked at the history of agriculture they have most often concentrated on cash crops like sugar, coffee and rubber which figure prominently in colonial records. Smallholders and stockbreeders, by contrast, provides a rare survey of the history of foodcrop farming, and a unique look at the history of animal husbandry, in the Southeast Asian region. Thirteen contributions by an international selection of expert authors cover topics ranging from the agricultural economy of precolonial Java to the growth of rice production in the Mekong Delta since 1950, and from the breeding of horses on the northern borderlands of mainland Southeast Asia to the production and consumption of beef in the Philippines. New light is shed on old questions regarding the directions in which Southeast Asian agriculture has evolved over the centuries, and new questions raised regarding the cultural, demographic, economic and political determinants of farming practices. While the geographical and chronological scales of analysis vary, most chapters deal with relatively large areas and with developments over periods of 100 years or more. Besides production for subsistence, commercial aspects of livestock and foodcrop farming are also given due attention and prove to have been important in many parts of the region from very early periods. Smallholders and stockbreeders is essential reading for anyone interested in the agricultural history of Southeast Asia, whether for its own sake, or in connection with other aspects of regional history, or for purposes of comparison with other parts of the world.

Book Englishmen at Sea

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  • Author : Eleanor Hubbard
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2021-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300246129
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Englishmen at Sea written by Eleanor Hubbard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a reputation for ruthlessness. Peace in 1603 forced these predatory seamen to adapt to a radically changed world, one in which they were expected to risk their lives for merchants' gain, not plunder. Merchant trading companies expected sailors to relinquish their unruly ways and to help convince overseas rulers and trading partners that the English were a courteous and trustworthy "nation." Some sailors rebelled, becoming pirates and renegades; others demanded and often received concessions and shares in new trading opportunities. Treated gently by a state that was anxious to promote seafaring in order to man the navy, these determined sailors helped to keep the sea a viable and attractive trade for Englishmen.

Book The Emergence of International Business  1200 1800  Enterprise and empire

Download or read book The Emergence of International Business 1200 1800 Enterprise and empire written by Theodore K. Rabb and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of commerce, covering such topics as colonial expansion, credit and banking, and the development of trading companies.

Book Gateways Of Asia

Download or read book Gateways Of Asia written by Frank Broeze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. The dynamic role of port cities has been a major element in the thrust of modern port city literature since. In the process interactions between history and other disciplines, above all geography, economics and town planning resulted in a growing number of collaborative volumes. Indicative of the broad front, multi-disciplinary approach and challenging agenda of this wave of port town and port city studies is the collective and diverse nature of the themes and authorship of each of these works. That very diversity of disciplines, nationalities and perspectives is also one of the main pillars supporting Gateways of Asia. It is not a repetition or summary of the introduction and first chapter of Brides of the Sea, but the publication of this volume, in many ways a sequel to that work, does provide the opportunity of clarifying a few points and elaborating on some issues raised after its publication.

Book The Island Princess

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  • Author : John Fletcher
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2021-08-12
  • ISBN : 1350284610
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book The Island Princess written by John Fletcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare's The Tempest through the encounter of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European competition for wealth at the farthest reaches of empire. The play also stages the degeneration of religious tolerance into fanaticism. This ground-breaking edition explores the play in its gendered, political, social and religious contexts whilst also finding its resonances for a twenty-first century audience. The critical introduction and on-page commentary notes create an ideal teaching text giving a comprehensive account of the play from both literary and performance perspectives.

Book From White to Yellow

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  • Author : Rotem Kowner
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2014-12-01
  • ISBN : 0773596844
  • Pages : 707 pages

Download or read book From White to Yellow written by Rotem Kowner and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic transformation, From White to Yellow is a groundbreaking study of the evolution of European interpretations of the Japanese and the emergence of discourses about race in early modern Europe. Transcending the conventional focus on Africans and Jews within the rise of modern racism, Rotem Kowner demonstrates that the invention of race did not emerge in a vacuum in eighteenth-century Europe, but rather was a direct product of earlier discourses of the "Other." This compelling study indicates that the racial discourse on the Japanese, alongside the Chinese, played a major role in the rise of the modern concept of race. While challenging Europe's self-possession and sense of centrality, the discourse delayed the eventual consolidation of a hierarchical worldview in which Europeans stood immutably at the apex. Drawing from a vast array of primary sources, From White to Yellow traces the racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.

Book The Hakluyt Handbook

Download or read book The Hakluyt Handbook written by David B. Quinn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference guide to the works of the Reverend Richard Hakluyt and a critical evaluation of his achievements.

Book Frontiers of Fear

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  • Author : Peter Boomgaard
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300127596
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Frontiers of Fear written by Peter Boomgaard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, reports of man-eating tigers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have circulated, shrouded in myth and anecdote. This fascinating book documents the “big cat”–human relationship in this area during its 350-year colonial period, re-creating a world in which people feared tigers but often came into contact with them, because these fierce predators prefer habitats created by human interference. Peter Boomgaard shows how people and tigers adapted to each other’s behavior, each transmitting this learning from one generation to the next. He discusses the origins of stories and rituals about tigers and explains how cultural biases of Europeans and class differences among indigenous populations affected attitudes toward the tigers. He provides figures on their populations in different eras and analyzes the factors contributing to their present status as an endangered species. Interweaving stories about Malay kings, colonial rulers, tiger charmers, and bounty hunters with facts about tigers and their way of life, the book is an engrossing combination of environmental and micro history.