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An Archaeology of art and writing: early egypth labels in context
An Archaeology of Art and Writing offers an in-depth treatment of the image as material culture. Centring on early Egyptian bone, ivory, and wooden labels—one of the earliest inscribed and decorated object groups from burials in the lower Nile Valley—the research is anchored in the image as the site of material action. A key aim of this book is to outline a contextual and reflexive approach…
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- 9783946198390
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- xx, 342p.: ill.
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- 930 PIQ a
Raffles' ideas on the land rent system in Java and the Mackenzie land tenure …
This study was suggested by Dr H. R. C. Wright's artic1e "Muntinghe's Advice to Raffles on the Land Question in Java".1 It does not pretend to be exhaustive. I have not examined the working of the land rent system during the British administration/~ nor, in deed, have I carried the story further than the early months of 1814. I hope that at some future date it may be possible to analyse t…
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- 9789004286368
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- viii, 193p.: ill.
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- 306 BAS r
Bonded labour: global and comparative perpective (18th-21st century)
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalisms need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous coolie trade – mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa – was one of the largest migrati…
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- 9783839437339
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- 233p.: ill.
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- 331.1173 BON b
Writing history in the digital age
A born-digital project that asks how recent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish
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- 9780472072064
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- xiii, 283p. : ill.
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- 902.85 WRI w
Sugar, steam and steel: the industrial project in colonial Java, 1830-1885
Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the ‘Oriental Cuba’ during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java — the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands Indies — drew decisively away in matters of techno…
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- 9781922064998
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- xii, 243p.: ill.
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- 959.8022
Teaching history in the digital age
A practical guide on how one professor employs the transformative changes of digital media in the research, writing, and teaching of history
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- 9780472118786
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- xiii, 167p. : ill.
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- 907.85 KEL t
Growth, structural transformation, and rural change in Viet Nam: a rising dra…
Many developing countries—Viet Nam included—continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households reallocate labour from traditional agriculture to more productive forms of agriculture and modern industrial and service sectors. Broad structural transformation and wid…
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- First edition.
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- 9780198796961
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- xxviii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Studies in development economics
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- 330 TAR g
Heirs to world culture : being Indonesian 1950-1965
This volume brings together new scholarship by Indonesian and non-Indonesian scholars on Indonesia’s cultural history from 1950-1965. During the new nation’s first decade and a half, Indonesia’s links with the world and its sense of nationhood were vigorously negotiated on the cultural front. Indonesia used cultural networks of the time, including those of the Cold War, to announce itself…
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- 9789004253513
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- xv, 529 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 959.803 LIE h
The touch of civilization
This work compares the process and practice of nineteenth-century American and Russian internal colonization, a form of contiguous, continental expansion, imperialism and colonialism that incorporated indigenous lands and peoples. It provides a critical, comparative examination of internal colonization exercised by the United States and Russia and experienced by two indigenous populations, the …
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- 9781607325505
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- 311p.: ill.
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- 909 SAB t
Transformations in twentieth century Korea
This edited collection traces the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Korea’s dramatic transformation since the late nineteenth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters examine the internal and external forces which facilitated the transition towards industrial capitalism in Korea, the consequences and impact of social change, and the ways in which Korea…
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- 9780203968277
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- xiii, 380p. : ill.
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- 330.95195043 TRA t
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