Economic Reorganization and the Slump in South and Southeast Asia

1981 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Baker
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
International Economy ◽  
The West ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Overseas Expansion

It was rather bold of Furnivall, less than a decade after the event, to announce that the Depression had brough to an end the history of European overseas expansion over almost half a millennium. Against a background of renewed disorder in the international economy, the current historiography seems to be taking this bold suggestion fairly seriously. The 1930s slump is now the accepted starting point for studies of the relations between the west and the rest in the postcolonial era.

scholarly journals Forgotten Forced Migrants of War: Civilian Internment of Japanese in British India, 1941–6

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200942199791
Author(s):  
Christine de Matos ◽  
Rowena Ward
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Second World War ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
British India ◽  
World War ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forced Migrants ◽  
Second World

The Second World War saw extraordinary movements of people, before, during and afterwards. Civilian internees are rarely considered part of this, and especially not those in South and Southeast Asia. Between December 1941 and May 1946, nearly 2700 Japanese civilians and colonial subjects from across Japan’s empire were interned in camps in British India. Mainly residents of Singapore and Malaya, these civilians were arrested and transferred by ship and train to India, where they were interned for all or part of the war. Their first ‘temporary’ camp was in Purana Qila, the Old Fort in New Delhi, from where some were repatriated to Japan in August 1942 as part of the Anglo-Japanese Civilian Exchange. The remaining civilians were moved to a more permanent camp at Deoli (Ajmer) in 1943. The internees experienced several hardships, including inadequate accommodation and disease. To date, little has been written about these internees and their journeys, especially in English. Weaving together archival sources, internee memoirs and non-English publications, this article seeks to reveal the experience of incarceration on internees in British India as forced migrants of war, and to consider reasons why the history of these internees remains largely invisible.

ENDRE STIANSEN AND MICHAEL KEVANE, ED., Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa (Boston: Brill, 1998). Pp. 319. $94 cloth.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-292
Author(s):  
Richard Lobban
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
African Studies ◽  
The West ◽  
Protracted Conflict ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Peripheral Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eastern Sudan

The history of Sudan still reflects the country's struggle to find its identity between Middle Eastern and African studies. Even within Sudan, there are spheres of interest ranging from the expanding ancient studies of Nubia to the protracted conflict between so-called Afro-Arab northerners and Nilotic southerners. Lost in these expanding domains are the histories of eastern Sudan and Kordofan to the west. Even the historiography of Sennar and Darfur is far better established than that of Kordofan. Thus, the very title of the book being reviewed suggests that Kordofan is an “invaded” and “peripheral” area on the edge of the Islamic and African worlds. Thus, this work is a welcome starting point in filling in this considerable gap in Sudan studies. Stiansen and Kevane have done noble service in this respect.

Being and Motion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Nail
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Human History ◽  
The West ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Historical Ontology ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Metaphysical Tradition ◽  
Philosophical Ontology ◽  
Fundamental Categories

Being and Motion offers an original philosophical ontology of movement. The history of philosophy has systematically explained movement as derived from something else that does not move: space, eternity, force, and time. Why, when movement has been central to human societies, did a philosophy based on movement never take hold in the West? This book is the first major work of systematic ontology to answer this question and finally overturn this long-standing metaphysical tradition by placing movement at the heart of philosophy. In doing so, Being and Motion provides a completely new understanding of the most fundamental categories of ontology from the ground up: quality, quantity, relation, modality, and others. It also provides the first history of the philosophy of motion, from the early prehistoric mythologies up to contemporary ontologies. More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility, and yet we lack a single contemporary ontology that takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. Being and Motion sets out to remedy this lacuna in contemporary thought by providing a historical ontology of our present: an ontology of movement.

“Enemies at the Gate:” The West German Greens and Their Arrival at the Bundestag—Between Old Ideals and New Challenges

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Mende
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Parliamentary System ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Green Politics ◽  
Major Break ◽  
History Of ◽  
Specific Activities ◽  
New Challenges

The West German Green Party's 1983 entrance into the Bundestag marked a major break, both in the history of this young political force and the parliamentary system of the Bonn Republic. The Greens had been founded in opposition to the guiding principles of the West German postwar consensus and conceived of themselves as an “anti-parliamentary party.” Although they had gained parliamentary experience in some regional chambers, their entrance onto the national parliamentary stage juxtaposed old ideals and new challenges—for the Greens themselves as well as for German political culture. Taking this singular historic moment as a starting point, this article summarizes the formation of the Greens in the context of the changing political and ideological landscape of the 1970s. It also contrasts the party's formation with the transformations in terms of program and personnel that it undertook during the 1980s. The focus lies less on the specific activities of the green parliamentary group than on the broader developments in green politics and thinking.

scholarly journals Daniel W. Brown A New Introduction to Islam, 2nd ed.

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
Tauseef Ahmad Parray
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

A New Introduction to Islam is an excellent undergraduate textbook presentinga thorough history of Islam. It introduces students to the historyand development of Islamic studies as a discipline—showing how Islamicstudies has shaped our understanding of Islam—and it also examineshow the vibrant religious culture of the Near East produced a unique andbrilliant intellectual and religious tradition spanning the fields of Islamiclaw, theology, philosophy, and mysticism. In addition, it shows the waysin which the Islamic tradition has enriched the world, and in turn, how ithas been enriched by interaction with other civilizations. And against thebackground of social and cultural contexts that extend from North Africato South and Southeast Asia, it also considers the opportunities and challengesfacing Muslims today and provides a new and illuminating perspectiveof the development of Muslim beliefs and practices ...

Slaves and Tyrants: Dutch Tribulations in Seventeenth-Century Mrauk-U

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the travails of the factors of the Dutch East India Company (or VOC) in the northern Burmese kingdom of Mrauk-U (or Arakan). The Dutch entered into trade in this rather obscure region, at the frontier of South and Southeast Asia, primarily owing to their interest in slaves, to be used in urban and rural settlements under their control in Indonesia. Dutch demand fed into the logic by which the Mrauk-U state from the latter half of the sixteenth century developed a formidable war-fleet, through which raids on the peasantry in eastern Bengal were conducted by Magh captains and Luso-Asian mercenaries, who collaborated with them. However, the whole commercial relationship was underwritten by a moral and cultural tension. The Dutch factors in their writings analysed here, insisted that the Mrauk-U kings were "tyrants," citing their slave trade as a key sign; a particular target for their attacks was the ruler Thado Mintara (r. 1645-52). Yet the Dutch too were complicit in the very same slave trade, and were perhaps even aware of their own "bad faith." For their part, the rulers of Mrauk-U regarded the Dutch with suspicion, while criticising their hypocrisy and double-dealing. Such tensions, negotiated through the 1630s and a part of the 1640s, eventually led the Dutch to withdraw from the trade, and then to re-establish tenuous contacts with some difficulty in the 1650s. The paper thus explores both the history of a form of hostile trade, and the process of the creation of mutual stereotypes, that went with the nature of commercial relations.

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