Rdn 09/10/2024
IN THIS BOOK I have attempted to use my experience of working in Asia to express a geographer's point of view on some parts of Asia for higher schools and colleges. As an examiner for British students and as visiting professor to American universities, I know the special difficulties of Western students when they look closer at the Monsoon Asia of today. Here I assume an elementary acquaintance…
Ance 03/09/24
Ance 03/09/24
Dalam buku ini tidak diadakam percobaan untuk menulis sejarah yang lengkap tentang perang kemerdekaan kita. Buku ini, yang di dasarkan atas catatan-catatan penulis selama bagian yang penting dari perang kemerdekaan itu, yakni sejak jatuhnya Yogyakaryta pada tanggal 19 Desember 1948 sampai upacara pengakuan kedaulatan di Jakarta pada tanggal 27 Desember 1949. Saif
FIRST AND FOREMOST, this is a book about people, about travelers and their motives and their adventures and about their reluc- tant hosts at journey's end. Diplomatic and political histories, filled as they are with broad sweeps and heavy laden with grand signifi- cances, often seem to lose sight of the fact that history is made by people and, when written, must be read by people, that but for …
JOHN WHITE'S account of his visit to Viet-Nam in 1819 and 1820 ranks as a minor treasure of early nineteenth century travel literature on South-East Asia. As White himself was at pains to point out in his 'Advertisement', this is not a book written by a professed scholar'. It is, however, less easy to accept his claim that the book is but 'the production of an unlettered seaman'. Not the least …
THE first foreigners settled in Shanghai in 1843. The Opium War had ended, and by the terms of the Treaty of Nanking of 1842, China opened up Canton, Foochow, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai as trade - or treaty - ports. The provi- sions of the treaty thus allowed the British to establish factories (trading firms) and permitted British merchants and their families to reside legally on Chinese soil. …
IN PRESENTING this book I hope to fill a gap that exists in the present body of literature about Kyoto, between superficial trav- el pamphlets and scholarly, annotated reference works. I found when I went to Kyoto myself that there was no single book be- tween these areas which answered my questions about the tem- ples and other historic buildings I saw; nor was there a book to help me select w…