Imperial Alchemy

Imperial Alchemy PDF

Author: Anthony Reid

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0521872375

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Using Southeast Asia as an example, this book tests theory about the relation between modernity, nationalism, and ethnic identity. The author develops his own typology to better fit the formation of political identities such as the Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Acehnese, Batak and Kadazan.

The Age of Globalization

The Age of Globalization PDF

Author: Benedict Anderson

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1781681988

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History is forged through the travel of ideas across continents—as well as by bombs. The Age of Globalization is an account of the unlikely connections that made up late nineteenth-century politics and culture, and in particular between militant anarchists in Europe and the Americas, and anti-imperialist uprisings in Cuba, China and Japan. Told through the complex intellectual interactions of two great Filipino writers—the political novelist José Rizal and the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes—The Age of Globalization is a brilliantly original work on how global exchanges shaped the nationalist movements of the time.

Historical Dictionary of the Philippines

Historical Dictionary of the Philippines PDF

Author: Artemio R. Guillermo

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 0810872463

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The Historical Dictionary of the Philippines, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries.

The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia

The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia PDF

Author: R.E. Elson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-13

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1349254576

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This book analyses the changing context and conditions of production and livelihood amongst Southeast Asia's peasants since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that with demographic growth and the nineteenth century development of great global markets based on small-scale production, the size and economic significance of peasantries throughout the region was magnified. However, such changes brought with them new forces - stronger states, more regular legal systems, a revolution in communications, intensive commercialisation - which themselves worked to undermine the foundations of peasant society and, eventually, to transform peasants into farmers, workers and citizens.