Responding to the West : essays on colonial domination and Asian agency
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181)
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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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