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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Malay archipelago"”.
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Writing Indigenous Identity in Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad's Polynesian and Malay Archipelago Novels
… Conrad’s five books set in the Polynesian and Malay Archipelagos—<em>Typee </em>and <em>Omoo</em> and the Malay Trilogy (<em>Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands,</em> and <em>The Rescue</em>)— are used as master models of how to write indigenous characters with rich characterization in …
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The Role of Place in Joseph Conrad's Fiction of The Malay Archipelago and The Congo
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T21:09:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913407.pdf: 10292728 bytes, checksum: fa7fb9b3cdfcec009f9904dc45f38f5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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The Dutch East India Company and the Straits of Malacca, 1700-1784 : trade and politics in the eighteenth century
… from the ports of the Indian Ocean, the Malay Archipelago has been one of the world's busiest commercial highways. As the volume of shipping from both East and West increased, many foreigners passed through the area, leaving a more or less permanent mark, according to the length and …
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The Dutch East India Company and the Straits of Malacca, 1700-1784 : trade and politics in the eighteenth century
… from the ports of the Indian Ocean, the Malay Archipelago has been one of the world's busiest commercial highways. As the volume of shipping from both East and West increased, many foreigners passed through the area, leaving a more or less permanent mark, according to the length and …
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The influence of culture on Malay business practice: a case study of Malaysia with special reference to the State of Kelantan Darul Naim
… the influence of Islam and culture on the Malay-Muslim business environment as observed in the Siti Khadijah Market of Kota Bharu, in the Malaysian state of Kelantan. It followed a qualitative research approach involving library research and a field study. The cultural influences on the …
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Seismic Design Manual for Interlocking Compressed Earth Blocks
… While many structures in Southeast Asia and the Malay Archipelago are constructed from earthen blocks, very few are engineered. Of those that are, a lack of formal design guidance specific to ICEB construction leaves most engineers and designers with conventional concrete masonry design …
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William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism
… this new method, and Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago (1869) prompted Howells to take what he called "a new direction" in fiction based on evolutionary theory and natural selection. He began to explore this new approach in sketches written for the Atlantic (later published as Suburban …
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Incomplete Conquests in the Philippine Archipelago, 1565-1700
… political and economic environment of the archipelago. This dissertation argues by contrast that the extent of Spanish control has been overstated – partially as a by-product of an over-reliance on religious and secular chronicles that sought to magnify the role and interests of the …