212 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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Sumbawa is a medium-sized island in eastern Indonesia which has a particularly interesting past. In the premodern era it lay on the trade routes that connected the north coasts of the islands of Melaka and Java with the spice-producing areas in Maluku, while Sumbawa itself exported horses, sappan wood, and rice. Its recorded history covers periods of Hindu-Javanese influence, the Southeast Asian... Read more
1. Translator's introduction 2. The ancient period 3. Islam and Makassar 4. The Sumbawan kingdoms under VOC suzerainty (1) 5. The Sumbawan kingdoms under VOC suzerainty (2) 6. In the wake of the Tambora disaster 7. From colonial rule to independence Appendix: Lists of Sumbawan rulers.
Biography
Hans Hägerdal is a professor of history at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His major fields are East and Southeast Asian history, in particular focusing on early-modern colonial encounters and contact zones, historiographical questions, and the history of slaving.
