Rajahs and Rebels
Author : Robert Pringle
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Robert Pringle
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y : Cornell University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Robert Pringle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert Pringle
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1971-07
Category :
ISBN :
Author : S. Nair-Venugopal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137009284
This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization.
Author : Gareth Knapman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1315452162
This book explores colonial debates on race, liberalism, colonial expansion and equality in South-East Asia, focusing on the writings of John Crawfurd, one of the British Empire’s leading racial theorists and colonial administrators in Asia.
Author : Naimah S. Talib
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Administrators and their Service is a historical study of the Sarawak Administrative Service.
Author : Candace Slater
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2004-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822385279
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner
Author : Cassandra Pybus
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780702228575
No Marketing Blurb
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1909
Category : History
ISBN :