Responding to the West
Essays on Colonial Domination and Asian Agency
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
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.
Introduction: New Paths of Colonial History
by Hans Hägerdal
The Future of the Past, the Past of the Future: History in Southeast Asia
by Vincent Houben
European Adventurers and Changes in the Indian Military System
by Ram Krishna Tandon
The Exile of the Liurai: A Historiographical Case Study from Timor
by Hans Hägerdal
Africans in Asia: The Discourse of ‘Negritos’ in Early Nineteenth-century Southeast Asia
by Sandra Khor Manickam
Women’s Education and Empowerment in Colonial Bengal
by Rachana Chakraborty
Her Old Ayah: The Transcolonial Significance of the Indian Domestic Worker in India and Australia
by Victoria Haskins
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)
by Daniel Leplat
Living the Colonial Lifestyle: Australian Women and Domestic Labour in Occupied Japan 1945-1952
by Christine de Matos
Decolonisation and the Origin of Military Business in Indonesia
by Bambang Purwanto
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