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Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
Responding to the West
Essays on Colonial Domination and Asian Agency
Rachana Chakraborty, Reader, Department of History, Bethune College, Calcutta University
Hans Hägerdal, Senior Lecturer in History, Växjö University, Sweden.
Victoria Haskins, Lecturer in Australian History, University of Newcastle, Australia.
Vincent Houben, Professor in Southeast Asian Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Daniel Leplat, Agrégé dhistoire, Ph.D. candidate, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
Sandra Khor Manickam, Ph.D. candidate at the Australian National University, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies.
Christine de Matos, Research Fellow, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, Australia.
Bambang Purwanto, Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gajah Mada University, Indonesia.
Ram Krishna Tandon, Reader, Department of Defence & Strategic Studies, University of Allahabad, India.
192 pages, 10 halftones 6 3/10 x 9 1/2
Paper $47.50
ISBN: 9789089640932
Published November 2009
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada
The international contributors to this penetrating volume apply fresh perspectives and new methodologies to the Asian colonial experience, from the eighteenth century through the post World War II decolonization. Historiography, gender, military studies, finance, and issues of race and class all feature in this wide-ranging account of the diversity of human relationships forged by the colonial presence. For all of its features of structural oppression, colonialism was not a one-way communicative process, as this volume demonstrates through its analysis of the ever-shifting roles of colonizer and colonized.
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