The origins of chinese kongsi

Certainly in mining this piece of history, which is little known if compared with the story of western democracy, I owe a great many intellectual debts to those who have helped me.rnrnFirst of all, I am indebted to Professor Wang Gungwu, not only for his useful advice in the field of Chinese and overseas Chinese history, but much more for his almost intuitive sense of terminology and the theore…

The Malays Par excellence Warts Ans All

Definition of a Malay-the Malay is a practising Muslim, residing in Malaysia, whose roots go back to his ancestors of the Old Malacca Empire and of those who were the sons of the soil in the other parts of the Malay archipelago, stretching as far back in history as 3000BC The Malay is endowed with a cultural heritage that has made him known throughout as the gentleman of the world" The Malay li…

Twentieth-century Indonesia

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0-231-03547-0

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413 hal.

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the law of civilization and decay

On four counts this volume is to be included among the out- standing documents of intellectual history in the United States and, in a way, the Western World. It deserves a prime place among the writings of the Adams family on the nature and course of so- cial politics, from the The Defence of the Constitutions of the United States by John Adams to the three penetrating and ex- plosive essays on…

an introduction to contemporary history

We live today in a world different, in almost all its basic preconditions, from the world in which Bismarck lived and died. How have these changes come about? What are the formative influences and qualitative differences which are the distinguishing marks of the contemporary era? It is with these questions that the present book is concerned, and for that reason I have called it an introduction …

Mankind and mother earth :a narrative history of the world

THE celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 called to mind the history of the preceding sixty years, and this retrospect opened up a view of the whole of history which looked clear and simple Between 1837 and 1897 the West had completed the establishment of its ascendancy over all the rest of the World. This was the consummation of a process that had been started, four hundred y…

Current affairs atlas

The journalist is a trained observer. To a de- gree, he can record, explain and interpret events and issues, situations and problems. This book is an exploratory effort, in which the au- thor has attempted to look at the world and see what is going on as a whole.rn

A history of the crusades 3

Bad news travels fast. The battle of Hattin had hardly been fought and lost before messengers hurried westward to inform the princes of Europe; and they were soon followed by others telling of the fall of Jerusalem. Western Christendom learned of the disasters with consternation. In spite of all the appeals that had come from the kingdom of Jerusalem in recent years, no one in the West, except …

the dynamics of world history

AFTER a century and more of historical specialism and archaeological research, of the minute criticism of docu- ments and sources, the time has come when it is becoming possible to reap the fruits of this intensive labour, and to undertake some general synthesis of the new knowledge of man's past that we have acquired. It is

Mastering modern world history

Under cover of darkness late on the night of 5 August 1914, five columnsrnrnof German assault troops, which had entered Belgium two days earlier,rnrnwere converging on the town of Liège, expecting little resistance. To theirrnrnsurprise they were halted by determined fire from the town's outlyingrnrnforts. This was a setback for the Germans: control of Liège was essentialrnrnbefore they could…