Lords of the land, lords of the sea : conflict and adaptation in early colonial Timor, 1600-1800 / Hans Hägerdal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hägerdal, Hans, author.

Series:

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 273.

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 273

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conflict--Timor Island--History.

Social conflict.

Colonization.

Politics and government.

Timor Island--Colonization.

Timor Island.

Timor Island--History--17th century.

Timor Island--History--18th century.

Timor Island--Politics and government.

Asia--Timor Island.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (495 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Leiden - Boston Brill 2012

Leiden : KITLV Press, 2012

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

European traders and soldiers established a foothold on Timor in the course of the seventeenth century, motivated by the quest for the commercially vital sandalwood and the intense competition between the Dutch and the Portuguese. Lords of the land, lords of the sea focuses on two centuries of contacts between the indigenous polities on Timor and the early colonials, and covers the period 1600-1800. In contrast with most previous studies, the book treats Timor as a historical region in its own right, using a wide array of Dutch, Portuguese and other original sources, which are compared with the comprehensive corpus of oral tradition recorded on the island. From this rich material, a lively picture emerges of life and death in early Timorese society, the forms of trade, slavery, warfare, alliances, social life, and so forth. The investigation demonstrates that the European groups, although having a role as ordering political forces, were only part of the political landscape of Timor. They relied on alliances where the distinction between ally and vassal was moot, and led to frequent conflicts and uprisings. During a slow and complicated process, the often turbulent political conditions involving Europeans, Eurasians, and Timorese polities, paved the way for the later division of Timor into two spheres of roughly equal size. Hans Hägerdal (1960) is a Senior Lecturer in History at the Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has written extensively on East and Southeast Asian history. Among his publications is Hindu rulers, Muslim subjects: Lombok and Bali in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (2001).

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1: Timor and historical research

2: The first contacts

3: Traditional forms of power

4: Establishments and clashes, 1641-1658

5: The Topass phase, 1650s-1702

6: Kupang and the five loyal allies, 1658-1700s

7: Life and death in Kupang

8: The Estado strikes back, 1696-1732

9: The Company on the move, 1732-1761

10: Colonial retreat and maintenance

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-461) and index.

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9789004253506

9004253505

OCLC:

952508410

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004253506 DOI