For a long time, silk, tea, sinocentrism, and eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history. Simultaneously deviating from and complicating these tags, this edited volume reconstructs narratives from the periphery and considers marginal voices located beyond official archives as the centre of East Asian history. The lives of the Japanese Buddhist monks, Eastern Han local governors, Confucian scholars, Chinese coolies, Shanghainese tailors, Macau joss-stick makers, Hong Kong locals, a...

Het tweede deel van Bouwen aan de Wilde Kust beschrijft de ontwikkeling van de civiele infrastructuur van Suriname vanaf 1945. Het gaat over de aanleg van landbouwpolders, over waterkrachtprojecten, de ontsluiting van het binnenland, het West-Suriname plan, de drinkwatervoorziening en ontwatering van Groot-Paramaribo, de wegen, bruggen, dijken, havens en vliegvelden. En ten slotte over de civiele bouwsector en hoe die zich in de afgelopen 75 jaar ontwikkelde.

Net als deel I over de periode va...

Since time immemorial China regarded its culture and statecraft superior to other nations, but in the ‘Age of Humiliation’ (1839-1949), it was reduced to a semi-colony. The old empire has now regained its strength, but what drives its domestic and foreign policy?

China calls itself a ‘Socialist’ country, but the appellation of philosopher Tu Weiming is more adequate: A battlefield of Socialism, Liberalism and Confucianism.

The outcome of this struggle will have profound repercussion...

Wereldgeschiedenis is geen ver-van-ons-bed-show. Evenmin is het de geschiedenis van één homogene wereld. Om de wereld vandaag te begrijpen is wereldgeschiedenis van cruciaal belang. Maar wereldgeschiedenis zelf is relatief jong. Toen de discipline in de jaren 90 ten tonele verscheen, was het vooral een manier om toenemende globalisering in die periode te begrijpen. Ze wou een antwoord bieden op westerse of eurocentrische navelstaarderij, een frisse blik die tot ver buiten de schaduw van de ...

This book was first published in Turkish under the title Bilinmeyen Osmanli, co-authored by Prof. Dr. Said Öztürk, and 250,000 copies were printed. I answered 290 questions whereas Öztürk answered 13 in total. He collaborated regarding source details and references as well as tirelessly proofreading and editing the book. In addition, this book was later translated into Arabic; the first edition was published by Osmanli Arastirmalari Vakfi (OSAV), Istanbul, and the second will be published...

As a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. 'A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age' looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed...

The Afro-Asianism of the early Cold War has long remained buried under the narrative of Bandung, homogenising and subverting the different visions of post-colonial worldmaking that co-existed alongside the Bandung project. This book turns the lens on these other visions, and the transnational interactions which emerged from various other gatherings of the 1950s and 1960s that existed beyond the realm of high diplomacy, while blurring the lines between state and non-state projects. It examines...

Zuidoost-Azië is op het eerste gezicht een regio vol diversiteit. Elf grote en kleine natiestaten, een veelheid aan religies, talen en culturen, en belangrijke geografische en ecologische verschillen lijken dit te bevestigen. In deze eerste Nederlandstalige geschiedenis van dit gebied laat Henk Schulte Nordholt deze diversiteit tot haar recht komen, maar gaat hij ook op zoek naar wat de regio verbindt.

Anders dan India en China kende Zuidoost-Azië geen rigide hiërarchie en grote imperiale...