Lords of the land, lords of the sea : conflict and adaptation in early colonial Timor, 1600-1800 / / Hans Hägerdal

• Autore: Hägerdal Hans
• Pubblicazione: Leiden - Boston, : Brill, 2012; Leiden : , : KITLV Press, , 2012; c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (495 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 959.8/6; 959.86
• Soggetto topico: Social conflict - Timor Island - History; Colonization; Politics and government; Social conflict
• Soggetto geografico: Timor Island Colonization; Timor Island History 17th century; Timor Island History 18th century; Timor Island Politics and government; Asia Timor Island
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Soggetto non controllato: economic history; colonial politics; timor; colonial history; political history; indonesia; social history; Dutch East India Company; Kupang; Lifau; Netherlands; Portuguese people; Sonbai; Topasses
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-461) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- 1: Timor and historical research -- 2: The first contacts -- 3: Traditional forms of power -- 4: Establishments and clashes, 1641-1658 -- 5: The Topass phase, 1650s-1702 -- 6: Kupang and the five loyal allies, 1658-1700s -- 7: Life and death in Kupang -- 8: The Estado strikes back, 1696-1732 -- 9: The Company on the move, 1732-1761 -- 10: Colonial retreat and maintenance -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. In contrast with most previous studies, the book treats Timor as a historical region in its own right, using a wide array of Dutch, Portuguese and other original sources, which are compared with the comprehensive corpus of oral tradition recorded on the island. From this rich material, a lively picture emerges of life and death in early Timorese society, the forms of trade, slavery, warfare, alliances, social life, and so forth. The investigation demonstrates that the European groups, although having a role as ordering political forces, were only part of the political landscape of Timor. They relied on alliances where the distinction between ally and vassal was moot, and led to frequent conflicts and uprisings. During a slow and complicated process, the often turbulent political conditions involving Europeans, Eurasians, and Timorese polities, paved the way for the later division of Timor into two spheres of roughly equal size. 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).
• Titolo autorizzato: Lords of the land, lords of the sea
• ISBN: 90-04-25350-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996210305503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 273.