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In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan grew dramatically…
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Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. Published since…
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Leading scholars of Indonesia reflect on the arc of our field, the development of Indonesian studies, considering what has been achieved and what still needs to be accomplished.
Explores political, economic, familial, educational and religious bonds connecting Southeast Asia and the Middle East, both historically and in the contemporary world. This volume shows how ongoing interactions have helped…
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world
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Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of…
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An introduction to Indonesias history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches.
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This volume looks at the intersection between history and anthropology to reveal the contingencies of the production of knowledge and its relation to power.
Volume I reveals how human movement from 1400-1800 shaped the nature of human interactions before the age of modern globalization. An important contribution to the study of pre-industrial global migrations…
Scholars from a range of fields tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. This volume pays…
This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches. The constituted stories highlight the protagonists’…
This collection of twenty essays provides an unprecedented overview of Chinese trade through the centuries, highlighting its scope, diversity, complexity, and the commodities that have linked it with Southeast Asia.
The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural…
Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have linked regions of the world’s largest continent. Connected Places, the second of three volumes, highlights the flows of goods, ideas, and…
The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the dynamic networks that have linked peoples…
In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars shows the ways that itinerant groups criss-crossing the continent have transformed their culture and surroundings. Going…
Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia’s culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. Published Cornell…
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Special issue: West Papua
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Articles include: Violence, Sectarianism, and the Politics of Religion: Articulations of Anti-Shi'a Discourses in Indonesia by Chiara Formichi; China and the Thirtieth of September Movement by Taomo Zhou; and In…
Articles in the April 2015 issue of Indonesia include "Indonesia's Media Oligarchy and the 'Jokowi Phenomenon' by Ross Tapsell and "Confucius Crosses the South Seas" by Henri Chambert-Loir.
Volume 101 (April 2016) of Indonesia includes five memorial essays in honor of Benedict R.O'G. Anderson, 1936-2015, by his friends and colleagues.
