Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea - Conflict and Adaptation in Early Colonial Timor, 1600-1800

Informationen zum Autor Hans Hägerdal (1960) is a Senior Lecturer in History at the Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has written extensively on East and Southeast Asian history. Among his publications is Hindu rulers, Muslim subjects: Lombok and Bali in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (2001). Klappentext European traders and soldiers established a foothold on Timor in the course of the seventeenth century, motivated by the quest for the commercially vital sandalwood and the intense competition between the Dutch and the Portuguese. Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea focuses on two centuries of contacts between the indigenous polities on Timor and the early colonials, and covers the period 1600-1800.

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• Autori: Hans Hagerdal, Hans Hägerdal
• Editore: University of hawaii press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9789067183789
• ISBN: 978-90-6718-378-9
• Serie: Verhandelingen Van Het Koninkl; Verhandelingen Van Het Koninkl
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Demologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia