EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book The Malayan Connection

Download or read book The Malayan Connection written by Zeus A. Salazar and published by Palimbagan Ng Lahi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Long Day Wanes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Burgess
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780393309430
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book The Long Day Wanes written by Anthony Burgess and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.

Book Ottoman Connections to the Malay World

Download or read book Ottoman Connections to the Malay World written by Saim Kayadibi and published by The Other Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a study of Southeast Asia, discussing the Malay world's long historical connection with the Muslim people including the Rumi-Turks, Hadramis and the Ottomans. These connections reflect religious, political and legal cooperations. It also discusses the Ottomans' policy of pan-Islamism and the role of Sultan Abdulhamid II in improving ties with the Malay world and their scholars, rulers and heritage, in the fight against Western colonial powers. In seven essays, the contributors to this book discuss the early religious-intellectual network in the region as well as the evolution of the judicial and political systems.

Book Introduction

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1871
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 660 pages

Download or read book Introduction written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family

Download or read book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family written by Lewis Henry Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Connections

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas R. Metcalf
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2007-04-24
  • ISBN : 0520933338
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Imperial Connections written by Thomas R. Metcalf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control, and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to eastern Asia. His book, offering a new perspective on how imperialism operates, emphasizes transcolonial interactions and webs of influence that advanced the interests of colonial India and Britain alike. Metcalf examines such topics as law codes and administrative forms as they were shaped by Indian precedents; the Indian Army's role in securing Malaya, Africa, and Mesopotamia for the empire; the employment of Indians, especially Sikhs, in colonial policing; and the transformation of East Africa into what was almost a province of India through the construction of the Uganda railway. He concludes with a look at the decline of this Indian Ocean system after 1920 and considers how far India's participation in it opened opportunities for Indians to be a colonizing as well as a colonized people.

Book Special Relationship in the Malay World

Download or read book Special Relationship in the Malay World written by Ho Ying Chan and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ho Ying Chan provides an expert analysis of Malaysia–Indonesia relations. He demystifies the concept of a 'special relationship', rescuing it from woolly, sentimental rhetoric that often emanates from political figures and popular commentators. His well-informed study shows how a state’s will to survive in the amoral world of international relations drives its conduct even in circumstances of common identities and common strategic interests with other states. He evaluates comparative evidence to shed light on how a special relationship leads to the emergence of a pluralistic security community. This is a conclusion of insight and value, not only to the field of Southeast Asian Studies, but also to the wider community of International Relations scholars." — Professor Clinton Fernandes, University of New South Wales, Australia "Empirically rich and theoretically interesting, this book offers an illuminating account of how material and ideational dynamics shape the evolution of Malaysia–Indonesia relations. Focusing on what is arguably the most vital bilateral relationship in Southeast Asia, it addresses the circumstances, conditions and constraints that determine the double-edged effects of the culturally bound 'special relationship'. Ho Ying Chan argues that while their shared serumpun identities and strategic interests do give rise to a considerable closeness between Malaysia and Indonesia, the politics of power (im)balance have prevented the transformation of the special relationship into a 'pluralistic security community', as their egoistic understanding averts the formation of collective self. The book generates useful insights on the interplay of cross-border cultural affinity and political necessity, inviting readers to ponder the politics of identity and survivability at the international level. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature of Southeast Asian international relations." — Dr Kuik Cheng-Chwee, National University of Malaysia (UKM) "Ho Ying Chan’s important study brings home the international and theoretical significance of the interaction between Malaysia and Indonesia, the two major states of Muslim Southeast Asia — products of the territorial division between the British and Dutch colonial empires. This welcome and revealing review of the Malaysia–Indonesia story deepens our understanding of the concept of a 'special relationship' — explaining both the cooperative and competitive dynamics that can be present, and the way such relationships are influenced by state identities and power imbalances." — Anthony Milner, University of Malaya; University of Melbourne

Book Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World

Download or read book Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World written by Jan van der Putten and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a group of international scholars, inspired by the scholarly perspective of Australian philologist Ian Proudfoot, who look at calendars and time, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, theater, art, Islamic manuscripts, and many more aspects of Malayan history.

Book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family

Download or read book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family written by Lewis Henry Morgan (ethnoloog, anthropoloog) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge

Download or read book Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Islamic Connections

    Book Details:
  • Author : R Michael Feener
  • Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9812309233
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Islamic Connections written by R Michael Feener and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well over half of the world's Muslim population lives in Asia. Over the centuries, a rich constellation of Muslim cultures developed there and the region is currently home to some of the most dynamic and important developments in contemporary Islam. Despite this, the internal dynamics of Muslim societies in Asia do not often receive commensurate attention in international Islamic Studies scholarship. This volume brings together the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars discussing various aspects of the complex relationships between the Muslim communities of South and Southeast Asia. With their respective contributions covering points and patterns of interaction from the medieval to the contemporary periods, they attempt to map new trajectories for understanding the ways in which these two crucial areas have developed in relation to each other, as well as in the broader contexts of both world history and the current age of globalization.

Book Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge

Download or read book Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Download or read book Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State and Society in the Philippines

Download or read book State and Society in the Philippines written by Patricio N. Abinales and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines’ ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaboration between government leaders and social forces. Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso examine the long history of institutional weakness in the Philippines and the varied strategies the state has employed to overcome its structural fragility and strengthen its bond with society. The authors argue that this process reflects the country’s recurring dilemma: on the one hand is the state’s persistent inability to provide essential services, guarantee peace and order, and foster economic development; on the other is the Filipinos’ equally enduring suspicions of a strong state. To many citizens, this powerfully evokes the repression of the 1970s and the 1980s that polarized society and cost thousands of lives in repression and resistance and billions of dollars in corruption, setting the nation back years in economic development and profoundly undermining trust in government. The book’s historical sweep starts with the polities of the pre-colonial era and continues through the first year of Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial presidency.

Book Frontier Constitutions

    Book Details:
  • Author : John D. Blanco
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2009-02-24
  • ISBN : 0520255194
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Frontier Constitutions written by John D. Blanco and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from original sources in Spanish and Tagalog, Blanco shows how artists and writers - in works as varied as plays, novels, histories, paintings, and reports submitted to the Spanish monarchy - struggled to synthesize these contradictions as they attempted to secure the colonial order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine independence."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Unlocking the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Darwin
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2020-10-01
  • ISBN : 0141992808
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Unlocking the World written by John Darwin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable. Unlocking the World is the captivating history of the great port cities which emerged as the bridgeheads of this new steam-driven economy, reshaping not just the trade and industry of the regions around them but their culture and politics as well. They were the agents of what we now call 'globalization', but their impact and influence, and the reactions they provoked, were far from predictable. Nor were they immune to the great upheavals in world politics across the 'steam century'. This book is global history at its very best. Packed with fascinating case histories (from New Orleans to Montreal, Bombay to Singapore, Calcutta to Shanghai), individual stories and original ideas, Darwin's book allows us, for better or worse, to see the modern age taking shape.

Book The Malayan Life of Ferdach O Haney

Download or read book The Malayan Life of Ferdach O Haney written by Frederick Lees and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1950 and the Federation of Malaya is in the throes of the Malayan Emergency. The British are struggling to defeat the communist terrorists and deal with rising nationalism in the colony. Ferdach O'Haney arrives in Malaya as a young Anglo-Irish man to serve the Federation government, and he is plunged into the nitty-gritty of Malayan Emergency duties in the New Villages and in the communist occupied jungles of Perak. Gregarious and bisexual, O Haney befriends communist terrorists and nationalist sympathisers, experiences the bloody Maria Hertogh race riots, and comes up against prejudiced colonial administrators. O’Haney meets General Briggs and Chin Peng, the leader of the communist guerrillas, and he reveals new information about the assassination of Sir Henry Gurney.