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Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea: Conflict and Adaptation in Early Colonial Timor, 1600-1800: 273
Author(s): Hans Hägerdal (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 496 pages
- ISBN-10: 9067183784
- ISBN-13: 9789067183789
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[…] Hägerdal has produced an outstanding piece of work. […] His scholarly but vivid painting of early colonial interaction in Timor presents a benchmark for academic research on this topic.”
Alexander Claver, Dutch Ministry of Defence, Itinerario, vol. 38, issue 1 (2014), pp. 147-149
Alexander Claver, Dutch Ministry of Defence, Itinerario, vol. 38, issue 1 (2014), pp. 147-149
About the Author
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).
