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Over de oorsprong van de benaming Maluku bestaan verschillende lezingen. In de loop van de geschiedenis zijn bovendien verschillende gebieden met deze naam aangeduid. Pas in het begin van de 19de eeuw, met de intree van het Gou- vernement der Molukken onder beheer van een Gouverneur, worden de grenzen van het gebied, dat wij nu kennen als de Molukken, geregeld. Vóór deze tijd werd de term Mal…
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DURING the past year the Middle East has maintained its position at the centre of world news. Civil war in the Lebanon has recently threatened to involve the whole Middle Eastern area in renewed large-scale conflict. The price of oil has continued to be an important factor in inflation. The oil States themselves have to some extent been experiencing the recession, with reduced demand for their …
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 …