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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"East Indies"”.
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Dutch and British Colonial Policies in the East Indies (1795-1824)
… policies of the British and the Dutch in the East Indies . The rivalry played out in the East Indies between England and Holland took place under against the backdrop of Europe engulfed in Napoleonic war, and the political mechinations and comprimises between British and Dutch crowns to …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
Biblical concepts were a key element in early modern Dutch representations of Asia, and played an essential role in the development of European cultures of empiricism. Historians, art historians, and scholars of orientalism have emphasised the imperialist and commercial inflections of Dutch …
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Cumbria's encounter with the East Indies c.1680-1829 : gentry and middling provincial families seeking success
… there are numerous allusions to Cumbrians in the East Indies. However, the importance and implications of that encounter have never been systematically explored. This thesis enumerates well over four hundred middling and gentry Cumbrian men and women who travelled to and sojourned in the East …
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"""I am the Devil's own"": Crime, class, and identity in the seventeenth century Dutch East Indies"
… ethnic identities on inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies during the period between the promulgation of the first independent Dutch East India Company (VOC) legal code and the restructuring of the criminal courts in 1689 and 1690. Using the case of the prosecution of Nicolaes Schagen as a point …
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Lone Star under the Rising Sun: Texas's "Lost Battalion," 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, During World War II
… the Japanese Imperial Army on Java in the Dutch East Indies. Shortly after the surrender, the men of the 2nd Battalion were joined as prisoners-of-war by the sailors and Marines who survived the sinking of the heavy cruiser USS Houston. From March 1942 until the end of World War II, these men …
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A dissertation lecture recital of Javanese gamelan elements in Godowsky's Java Suite
… by his firsthand travels through the Dutch East Indies. Drawing from Javanese gamelan scholarship and cultural knowledge, I identified specific compositional techniques Godowsky employed to evoke the gamelan sound world on the piano—including diatonic and pentatonic harmony, quartal chords, …
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Sustainable microfinance in Indonesia : a sociocultural approach
… programs were established in the Netherlands East Indies as a strategy to alleviate poverty in pre-dominantly Moslem rural communities. When Indonesia won its independence, these government-subsidized microfinance programs based on the payment of interest were continued until 1983, when the …
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Performing National Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
… began in the early twentieth century Dutch East Indies, much energy has been devoted to the development of an Indonesian identity that both differentiates the new nation from its colonizers and links people separated by geography, history, ethnicity, language and class. Such national …
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The puzzle of the indian boy in a Midsummer Night's Dream
… interpretations of the play which posit an east Indian prince and an east Indian location for Titania’s lengthy description of “India” in Act Two, Scene One. Such interpretations appear to have originated in Purcell’s late 17th century opera The Fairy Queen when English trade with India and …
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Indonesia Union College : a Historical Study of a Seventh-day Adventist Institution
… established in Indonesia was the Netherlands East Indies Training School (Indonesia Union College after 1962) founded in 1929. The school has since grown considerably and achieved university status, but no comprehensive history of it has been written. This lack points to a need for a …
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Christendom at the Cape : a critical examination of the early formation of the Dutch Reformed Church
… Cape during the formative period of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) rule and how did it shape the Dutch Reformed Church as established church in this locale? This question was prompted by my hunch that the Dutch Reformed Church at the Cape and in the later South Africa has since VOC rule …
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The politics of ahl as-sunnah : adapting tharīqah ‘alawiyyah in Indonesian politics
… limited their activities in the Netherlands East Indies, as well as national issues that required them to assimilate into Indonesian society. A contributing factor to this adaptation is the way Arab culture has acculturated with Indonesian culture. Habib Luthfi also successfully built a …
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Nurturing transitions: Housewife organizations in (colonial) Indonesia, 1900-1972
… housewife organizations in the Netherlands Indies and Indonesia assisted the population of the archipelago in adapting to the political upheaval that attended Indonesia's national liberation from the Netherlands. Under the Ethical Policy (1900-1942), the Association of Housewives sought to …
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Free Trade and Family Values: Kinship Networks and the Culture of Early American Capitalism
… of the Anglo-American relationship in the East Indies, especially China. For example, the special relationships the Perkinses established with the Wu family of Canton as well as the London-based Baring Brothers & Co. proved critical to their success in business. Yet these relationships …
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Amalgamated Anatomies and Crossbred Cultures: Biological Hybridity in British Colonial Fiction
… in nineteenth-century Britain and the colonial East Indies. While postcolonial scholars have theorized the metaphorical forces of cultural hybridity, such as the exchange of ideological frameworks, spiritual beliefs, and social values, I pay particular attention to the biological sciences of …
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A trade so uncontrollably uncertain : a study of the English southern whale fishery from 1815 to 1860
… to the many attractive islands of the Pacific or East Indies. It instead looks at English whaling as a business in the period after the Napoleonic Wars. Following the peace there was considerable growth in factory based production in England and the southern whaling trade was one of maritime …
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A trade so uncontrollably uncertain : a study of the English southern whale fishery from 1815 to 1860
… to the many attractive islands of the Pacific or East Indies. It instead looks at English whaling as a business in the period after the Napoleonic Wars. Following the peace there was considerable growth in factory based production in England and the southern whaling trade was one of maritime …
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Kiai Sadrach Suropranoto (1835-1924) and the Javanese mystical Christian movement.
This dissertation examines the life, ministry, and theological contributions of Kiai Sadrach Suropranoto (1825-1924), a Javanese Christian leader who emerged as a central figure in the development of indigenous Christianity in colonial Java. Born into a poor farming family and orphaned as a child, …