Responding to the West : essays on colonial domination and Asian agency
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Bibliographic Information
Responding to the West : essays on colonial domination and Asian agency
(ICAS publications series / general editor Paul van der Velde, Edited volumes ; 5)
Amsterdam University Press, c2009
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The nine essays of this volume, spanning from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, highlight the workings of, and reactions to, colonial domination in Asian contexts. The scholars, which include Victoria Haskins of the University of Newscastle, use a range of social science history methods to explore new paths to colonial history. How were individuals, groups, and social categories able to order their lives in the face of the implementation of external dominance? In other words, what was the agency enabling them to interact with, adapt to, use, counteract and in the end defeat colonialism? The essays emphasize colonialism as a multifaceted historical phenomenon which has taken a number of mutually incompatible forms. The various texts thus reflect on both the -early colonialism build on indirect and informal practices, and the later forms marked by a high degree of authoritarian control.
Table of Contents
9789089640932_ICAS_Voorplaat_H gerdal - DEF HR - 1[-]web_ready - 2[-] Table of Contents - 6[-] List of Figures and Tables - 7[-] Introduction: New Paths of Colonial History - 9[-] The Future of the Past, the Past of the Future: History in Southeast Asia - 18[-] European Adventurers and Changes in the Indian Military System - 30[-] The Exile of the Liurai: A Historiographical Case Study from Timor - 46[-] Africans in Asia: The Discourse of 'Negritos' in Early Nineteenth-century Southeast Asia - 70[-] Women's Education and Empowerment in Colonial Bengal - 88[-] Her Old Ayah: The Transcolonial Significance of the Indian Domestic Worker in India and Australia - 103[-] The Chinese, the Indians and the French Exchange Control during the French Indochinese War or How to Endure, Fight and Mock the Colonial Power (1945-1954) - 118[-] Living the Colonial Lifestyle: Australian Women and Domestic Labour in Occupied Japan 1945-1952 - 138[-] Decolonisation and the Origin of Military Business in Indonesia - 152[-] References - 172
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