Historical sights of jakarta

In 1513 the first European sailors, four Porte- guese ships under the command of de Alvin, arrived from Malacca which had been conquered two years earlier by Alfonso d'Albuquerque They were looking for spices, especially pepper An eye-witness, Tomé Pires, tells us of a deep harbour, bustling and well-organised. Some years later, the Portuguese Enrique Leme visited Kalapa with presents for the …

The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order

In the summer of 1993 the journal Foreign Affairs published an article of mine titled The Clash of Civilizations?" That article, according to the Foreign Affairs editors, stirred up more discussion in three years than any other article they had published since the 1940s. It certainly stirred up more debate in three years than anything else I have written. The responses and comments on it have c…

Sources and studies for the history of the jesuits : volume III a treatise on…

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Puncak kekuasaan Mataram: politik ekspansi Sultan Agung

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Philosophies of history :meeting of east and west in cycle pattern theories o…

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The beginnings of Christianity in the Philippines

As far as the Philippines is concerned Christianity brought to us a mixture of evil and good. For one thing the Spanish Christianization ushered in this country a period of religious wars that lasted almost three hundred years in which the Spaniards were the aggressors. Had they not sent punitive expeditions to Mindanao and Sulu, the religious wars could have been avoided, and thousands of live…

Jihad vs McWorld

ON SEPTEMBER 11, Jihad's long war against McWorld culmi- nated in a fearsomely unprecedented and altogether astonish- ing assault on the temple of free enterprise in New York City and the cathedral of American military might in Washington, D.C. In bring ing down the twin towers of the World Trade Center and destroying a section of the Pentagon with diabolically contrived human bombs, Jihadic wa…

The idea of history

DURING the first six months of 1936 Collingwood wrote thirty- two lectures on The Philosophy of History. The manuscript falls into two parts, each of which he intended to work up into a book. The first is an historical account of how the modern idea of history has developed from Herodotus to the twentieth century; the second consists of 'metaphysical epilegomena' or philosophical reflections on…