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The Banana Tree At The Gate
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Author : Michael R. Dove
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Banana Tree At The Gate written by Michael R. Dove and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with History categories.
The "Hikayat Banjar", a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples of Borneo and the world system, standing on its head the prevailing view of resource-poor and economically marginal tropical forest dwellers. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful. This success is based on the development of a "dual" household economy, with distinct subsistence- and market-oriented sectors, which has historically made these "smallholders" extremely competitive with the large-scale, heavily capitalized, state-supported plantation sector. Dove sheds new light on the nature of smallholders and in particular their relationship with the global economic system. He demonstrates that processes of globalization began millennia ago and that they have been more diverse and less teleological than often thought. His analysis replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out. The ubiquitous but historically inaccurate emphasis on isolation and resource-poverty disguises that the overweening characteristic of these communities is their political marginality and that their greatest want is not to be uplifted economically but to be empowered politically.
The Banana Tree At The Gate
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Author : Michael Dove
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-08
The Banana Tree At The Gate written by Michael Dove and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-08 with Social Science categories.
The “Hikayat Banjar,” a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as “the banana tree at the gate.” Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples of Borneo and the world system. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo’s native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful and that processes of globalization began millennia ago. Dove’s analysis replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out.
Technology In Southeast Asian History
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Author : Suzanne Moon
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2023-07-25
Technology In Southeast Asian History written by Suzanne Moon and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Explores the role of technology in the larger political and economic fabric of Southeast Asia. In Technology in Southeast Asian History, Suzanne Moon explores the profound entanglement of technology with Southeast Asian politics, social life, economics, and culture over its long history. Moon offers a unique framework for understanding the place of technology in this region and its pivotal role in the emergence of the modern technological world. Synthesizing scholarship from the fields of history, archaeology, and anthropology, Moon examines and links technological stories from prehistory to the mid-twentieth century. She uses analytics in the history of technology—such as circulation, coproduction, and assemblage—to highlight the processes and evolving patterns of technological dynamism that characterize the region. Drawing on research focused on specific technologies, including temple construction, rice agriculture, weaving, and shipbuilding, Moon investigates the interconnectedness of these technologies within the larger political and economic fabric of Southeast Asian history. In contrast with portrayals of Southeast Asia as technologically deficient, Moon demonstrates the richness of this region's technological cultures. She rejects polarizing binaries such as traditional and modern or indigenous and foreign, instead underscoring Southeast Asia's role as a dynamic cocreator of the modern technological world. Technology has contributed to the creation and disruption of social and political orders; shaped engagements across barriers of distance, culture, and language; and produced and reproduced diverse cultures in this region. This narrative of technological change offers students, scholars, and readers critical new perspectives on both technological history and Southeast Asian history.
A World History Of Rubber
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Author : Stephen L. Harp
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-12-21
A World History Of Rubber written by Stephen L. Harp and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-21 with History categories.
A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today, through the fascinating story of one commodity. Divides the coverage into themes of race, migration, and labor; gender on plantations and in factories; demand and everyday consumption; World Wars and nationalism; and resistance and independence Highlights the interrelatedness of our world long before the age of globalization and the global social inequalities that persist today Discusses key concepts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including imperialism, industrialization, racism, and inequality, through the lens of rubber Provides an engaging and accessible narrative for all levels that is filled with archival research, illustrations, and maps
The Gate Of The Burnt One
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Author : Philip G Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Release Date : 2024-05-24
The Gate Of The Burnt One written by Philip G Cohen and has been published by Austin Macauley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-24 with Fiction categories.
Based on an intriguing alternative history hypothesis, this novel imagines a world where the Moors never left Southern Spain after their 800-year reign but instead expanded their empire across Europe. This fascinating premise is explored through the chaotic lens of a bumbling film crew in the Sahara desert. The director, lost in a haze of Moroccan kif, has embraced the local culture a little too enthusiastically. With the scriptwriters gone and the leading actor in a perpetual sulk inside his Airstream, the production is at a standstill. Enter Tinctorio Indigolin, a bitcoin billionaire on the run from a Shakespeare-quoting Irish assassin. In a bid to leverage a tax loss, Indigolin acquires the film rights, injecting a new lease of life into the project. Mysteriously, a captivating screenplay begins to appear on set, page by page, night after night. Penned by an enigmatic writer, the script proposes a world where the Moors didn’t just resist expulsion in 1492 but went on to dominate Spain, France, and Italy, creating an Islamic State of Europe. As the screenplay unfolds, it transforms the lives of everyone involved in the film. The narrative weaves through a labyrinth of twists, assassinations, and narrow escapes, employing the most unexpected methods, only to culminate in the most uplifting conclusion you’ll encounter this year.
Alluring Monsters
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Author : Rosalind Galt
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-16
Alluring Monsters written by Rosalind Galt and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Performing Arts categories.
The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has died in childbirth, and her vengeful return upsets gender norms and social hierarchies. The pontianak first appeared on screen in late colonial Singapore in a series of popular films that combine indigenous animism and transnational production with the cultural and political force of the horror genre. In Alluring Monsters, Rosalind Galt explores how and why the pontianak found new life in postcolonial Southeast Asian film and society. She argues that the figure speaks to a series of intersecting anxieties: about femininity and modernity, globalization and indigeneity, racial and national identities, the relationship of Islam to animism, and heritage and environmental destruction. The pontianak offers abundant feminist potential, but her disruptive gender politics also unsettle queer and feminist film theories by putting them in dialogue with Malay epistemologies. Reading the pontianak as a precolonial figure of disturbance within postcolonial cultures, Galt reveals the importance of cinema to histories and theories of decolonization. From the horror films made by Cathay Keris and Shaw Studios in the 1950s and 1960s to contemporary film, television, art, and fiction in Malaysia and Singapore, the pontianak in all her media forms sheds light on how postcolonial identities are both developed and contested. In tracing the entanglements of Malay feminist animisms with postcolonial visual cultures, Alluring Monsters reveals how a “pontianak theory” can reshape understandings of anticolonial aesthetics and world cinema.
Novel Chillim The Traditional Smoking Pipe
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Author : SUBHASIS CHAUDHURI
language : en
Publisher: Crown Publishing
Release Date : 2025-07-22
Novel Chillim The Traditional Smoking Pipe written by SUBHASIS CHAUDHURI and has been published by Crown Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-22 with Fiction categories.
– Human curiosity about ghosts, the occult, tantric practices, etc. has existed for ages. It is said that Tantric practices spread in the Shakti Peethas (holy places where the worship of the Goddess of Dash Mahavidya takes place) of Eastern India through a unique blend of Buddhist and Hindu (Sanatan) worship methods. The power of Tantra and Mantra resides within all forms of the “Dash Mahavidyas”. Science has advanced. Yet, psychologists have not been able to fully analyze the psychological activities of the human mind. Consciousness has three levels: conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. I do not have accurate information about whether these three levels are influenced by any primordial physical forces. (Although, this thought of mine is not absolute, at least I don't even think so.) Nevertheless, some people believe in God or other supernatural forces. In all countries of the world, some people continue to practice spiritualism, black magic, and their application in real life. The conflict between theists and atheists will continue. Therefore, with respect for theism, this is my small endeavor. This is merely a work of fiction; any resemblance to real events is purely coincidental and unintentional. Please let me know if you like the novel. Your appreciation will inspire me to create something new. Thank you!
A History Of Architecture And Trade
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Author : Patrick Haughey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-19
A History Of Architecture And Trade written by Patrick Haughey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-19 with Architecture categories.
A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative. The book uses an alternative holistic lens through which to view the development of architecture and trade, covering diverse topics such as the coercive urbanism of the Dutch East India Company; how slavery and capitalism shaped architecture and urbanization; and the importance of Islamic trading in the history of global trade. Each chapter examines a key site in history, using architecture, landscape and urban scale as evidence to show how trade has shaped them. It will appeal to scholars and researchers interested in areas such as world history, economic and trade history and architectural history.
The Banana Tree At The Gate
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Author : Michael R. Dove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Banana Tree At The Gate written by Michael R. Dove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
The “Hikayat Banjar”, a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as “the banana tree at the gate”. Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples of Borneo and the world system, standing on its head the prevailing view of resource-poor and economically marginal tropical forest dwellers. Based on analyses of production and trade in forest products, pepper and, especially, natural rubber, this study shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity production for global markets is ancient and highly successful. This success is based on the development of a 'dual' household economy, with distinct subsistence- and market-oriented sectors, which has historically made these smallholders extremely competitive with the large-scale, heavily capitalized, state supported plantation sector. This study sheds new light on the nature of 'smallholders' and in particular their relationship with the global economic system. It shows that processes of globalization began a millennia ago and that they have been more diverse, and less teleological, than often thought. This study replaces the image of the isolated tropical forest community that needs to be helped into the global system with the reality of communities that have been so successful and competitive that they have had to fight political elites to keep from being forced out. The ubiquitous but historically inaccurate emphasis on isolation and resource-poverty disguises the fact that the overweening characteristic of these communities is their political marginality and that their greatest want is not to be uplifted economically but to be empowered politically.