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Geoffrey C Gunn
A pioneering work in the study of history and geography of the pre-1800 world. Imagined Geographies is a pioneering work in the study of the history and geography of the…
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TAN MALAKA’S NAAR DE ‘REPUBLIEK INDONESIA’ - A Trans- lation and Commentary is a reprint of a book of the same title that was published in Japan in 1996. This…
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Geoffrey C. Gunn
This book explores the effects that the Ptolemaic template developed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago had on the cartography and worldview of Europe through and beyond the…
Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language play, crime and punishment, and gender, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and…
The history of East Timor is related in this book through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places…
Contrary to modern theories of developing nations, Brunei Darussalam, which has a very high rate of literacy, is also one of the few countries where the traditional elite retains absolute…
First book to explain the agency of Cambodian monarchs in the face of broader colonial manipulation and international power plays. It explores the historic interplay of charismatic power and political…
This volume examines political dynamics on nuclear issues locally and nationally and explains the Nagasaki discourse on peace as embodied in the city’s annual memorial declaration. It focuses on the…
This book offers the first detailed English-language examination of the Great Vietnamese Famine of 1945, which left at least a million dead, and links it persuasively to the largely unexpected…
In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki’s historical role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk.
With extradition a major political issue today, this examination of the legal case of Ho Chi Minh in colonial Hong Kong offers timely insights into rule of law and extradition…
