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Sumatran Sultanate and Colonial State
Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
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Description for Sumatran Sultanate and Colonial State
Paperback. Translator(s): Jackson, Beverley. Num Pages: 388 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 730.
The first English translation of Professor Locher-Scholten's 1994 Dutch text, a study of the reaction to Dutch colonial expansion by the Sumatran sultanate of Jambi. The Dutch text has been called "an excellent teaching tool for work on the Netherlands imperial project " [Locher-Scholten's] extensive archive work, in both Holland and Indonesia, her explicit reference to secondary theoretical works, and her useful lists mean that her analysis is transparent and accessible."
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780877277361
SKU
V9780877277361
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Reviews for Sumatran Sultanate and Colonial State
The value of this work....lies in the richly detailed historical case against which to assess competing theoretical views.... This meticulously documented history of the Jambi-Batavia relationship opens a window on a critical period of time when the policy in the Hague and in Batavia changed from 'abstention' toward one aimed at the control of territory and people.... Locher-Scholten's meticulous scholarship ... Read more