Power and prowess : the origins of Brooke kingship in Sarawak / J.H. Walker.
Power and prowess : the origins of Brooke kingship in Sarawak / J.H. Walker.
Power and prowess : the origins of Brooke kingship in Sarawak / J.H. Walker.
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Crows Nest, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin ; Honolulu, Hawai'i : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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959.54/2 , N959.54/2
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English
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xx, 300 p.: ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Contents
Approaching 19th-century Sarawak -- 1. Power and prowess in northwest Borneo -- 2. Insurgency and the foundations of Brooke power -- 3. Integration and exclusion in the early Brooke state -- 4. The Iban challenge -- 5. Competition, resistance and ritual in patron-client systems -- 6. Chinese power a...
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Crows Nest, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin ; Honolulu, Hawai'i : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.
Date Published
2002.
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"A significant reinterpretation of Sarawak history, Power and Prowess explores the network of power, economic and ritual relationships that developed on the northwest coast of Borneo in the mid-nineteenth century, from which a coalition led by James Brooke established the state of Sarawak." "Drawing on conceptual frameworks from political science,...
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Power and prowess : the origins of Brooke kingship in Sarawak / J.H. Walker.
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Southeast Asia publications series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-287) and index.
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959.54/2 , N959.54/2
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1865087114 (pbk.) :
9780824825003
0824825004
9781865087115 :
1865087114 :
9781865087115
1865087114
9781865087115 (pbk.)
1865087114 (pbk.)
9781865087115 (pbk.) :
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959.54
959.5403
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991014903629702626
