In 1860, seventeen-year-old samurai Tateishi Onojirō, nicknamed “Tommy,” made headlines across America for his real and imagined adventures as part of the 1860 Japanese Embassy, the first Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States. The perception of Tateishi’s interracial romantic encounters with American women opened up to controversy and questioning the hierarchies of race and culture fundamental to many antebellum American concepts of civilization. This book reveals how Tateis...

Zuidoost-Azië is een regio van elf grote en kleine natiestaten vol religieuze, culturele en ecologische verscheidenheid. Historicus Henk Schulte Nordholt laat in dit bijzondere overzichtswerk deze rijke diversiteit tot haar recht komen maar gaat ook op zoek naar wat de staten verbindt. Schulte Nordholt neemt de lezer mee van de prehistorie tot de komst van de Europeanen, en van de roep om onafhankelijkheid tot de turbulente globaliseringsperiode na de Koude Oorlog.

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Zuidoost-Azië is op het eerste gezicht een regio vol diversiteit. Elf grote en kleine natiestaten, een veelheid aan religies, talen en culturen, en belangrijke geografische en ecologische verschillen lijken dit te bevestigen. In deze eerste Nederlandstalige geschiedenis van dit gebied laat Henk Schulte Nordholt deze diversiteit tot haar recht komen, maar gaat hij ook op zoek naar wat de regio verbindt.

Anders dan India en China kende Zuidoost-Azië geen rigide hiërarchie en grote imperiale...

Pearls of Meaning offers a collection of essays by J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn, a leading scholar in the field of Persian Studies, in which essential domains of Persian culture such as poetry and Sufism are analyzed in an exemplary fashion. While poetry plays a pivotal position in these essays, the reception of the Persian literary tradition in Europe is another focus of the volume. De Bruijn evaluates the works of a generation of scholars such as A. Reland (1676-1718), C.H. Ethé (1844-1917), J....

For a long time, silk, tea, sinocentrism, and eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history. Simultaneously deviating from and complicating these tags, this edited volume reconstructs narratives from the periphery and considers marginal voices located beyond official archives as the centre of East Asian history. The lives of the Japanese Buddhist monks, Eastern Han local governors, Confucian scholars, Chinese coolies, Shanghainese tailors, Macau joss-stick makers, Hong Kong locals, a...

Over Iran lezen we al decennia met regelmaat in de krant. Iran kent een veelzijdige en complexe cultuur en beschaving. Helaas leveren de meeste media ons geen goed beeld van de Iraanse politiek, cultuur, identiteit en bevolking.

Dit Elementaire Deeltje geeft ons een genuanceerd nieuw beeld van de Iraanse geschiedenis en politiek. De Iraanse Revolutie van 1979 wordt in een context geplaatst van politieke en sociale veranderingen die zich in de loop van vele jaren voltrokken. Ali Ansari geeft o...

In 1884 an obscure British soldier, having finished his tour of duty in India, decided to make a detour on his trip home in order to spend three months crossing Persia unaccompanied except for the local muleteers. Among his accoutrements he packed a small leather-bound sketchbook in which he not only wrote a journal but in which he also added accomplished and charming water-colour illustrations. The authors' introduction contextualises this trip made in 1884 against the background of Persiana...

Navigating Pluralities marks a break in understanding the history of Roman-Dutch law in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, it challenges socio-legal studies that concentrate on major jurisdictional conflicts alone, emphasizing the lived experience of everyday practices of judicial forums. It uncovers the navigation of plural practices in the Landraad, a judicial forum set up by the Dutch East India Company in seventeenth-century Sri Lanka. A choice of laws came into play in that forum, that choice ...

As a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. 'A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age' looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed...