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| Leiden
1999 |
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| La
Historiografiá Indígena de Michoacán.
El Lienzo de Jucutácato y los Títulos de
Carapan |
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| Hans
Roskamp |
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Antes de la llegada de los españoles, los indígenas
de Michoacán y otras regiones en México
tenían su propia forma de escritura basada
en elementos pictóricos con un determinado
significado. En esta tradición pictográfica
fueron realizados varios documentos, entre ellos
matrículas de tributo, mapas, genealogías
de casas señoriales y de caciques, libros sobre
dioses, rituales, inventarios de propiedades,
tierras y descripciones históricas
del asentamiento o territorio. En la época
colonial los indígenas siguieron usando esta
forma de escritura, incluyendo ya elementos europeos
y empezando a usar el alfabeto latino para escribir su
propia lengua, incorporándolo en sus pictografías.
El presente trabajo es un análisis iconográfico
del Lienzo de Jucutácato y los títulos de
Carapan, documentos procedentes respectivamente de la
historiografía náhua y uacúsecha
de Michoacán. Se pone énfasis
en el uso de estos documentos por ciertas élites
y poblaciones indígenas en la época virreinal,
para legitimar derechos a tierras y minas (de cobre, matiz
y cal) y para obtener o mantener el poder político,
económico y religioso. Para interpretar estos documentos
pictográficos dentro de su contexto histórico
regional, se ha usado un gran número de fuentes
dentro de una perspectiva interdisciplinaria; la literatura
sobre la arqueología, etnohistoria, antropología
y lingüística de Michoacán, documentos
etnohistóricos publicados y inéditos (colecciones
de archivos) y otras fuentes pictográficas.
Además ha sido de suma importancia la ayuda brindada
por las poblaciones indígenas. Los documentos pictográficos
proceden de la historiografía indígena
de Michoacán y representan la visión indígena
del mundo prehispánico y virreinal. Aún
en la actualidad tienen gran valor para muchas comunidades
michoacanas.
(In Spanish, 426 pp., incl. bibl., index, photographs)
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| 466 pp. |
| Leiden
1998 |
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| The Arabian Seas, 1640-1700 |
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| R.J.
Barendse |
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The
Arabian Seas, 1640-1700 deals with the coastal
zones of the Red Sea, the Persian Golf and Western India.
It also discusses the relations between these coastal
lands and the agrarian empires of Mughals, Safawids
and Ottomans.
Working
with mostly unpublished materials - Dutch, English,
Portuguese - the author shows an uncanny capacity for
picking out telling incidents and details that not only
enliven his treatise but often shed new light on circumstances
and developments, deepening our understanding of the
area and the incipient spread of European expansion.
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| ISBN
978-90-5789-006-2
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| 144 pp. |
| Leiden
1998 |
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| The
Shadow of Monte Alban. Politics and Historiography in
Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico |
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| Maarten
Jansen, Peter Kröfges and Michel Oudijk |
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Over the last 75 years the Oaxacan post-classic period
has been the subject of intensive research. A period of
profound social and political change, the last 500 years
of the prehispanic era saw the shaping of Oaxacan indigenous
society into that which was encountered by the Spaniards
in 1521 A.D. Whereas the history of this region has always
been regarded within certain ethnic borders, this book
looks beyond these modern constructions. By following
a sound methodology and utilizing a wide range of new
and diverse documentation, the authors reveal that supposed
ethnic borders fail to account for late prehispanic and
early colonial elite relationship patterns. Instead such
patterns are explained better through indigenous socio-political
strategies and traditions dating back to Monte Albán
in the late classic period (" 1000 A.D).
(In Spanish & English, 144 pp. incl. ill.) |
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| ISBN
978-90-5789-003-1
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| 374 pp. |
| Leiden
1998 |
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Building in Nineteenth Century Latin America. Dilemmas
and Conflicts |
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| Hans-Joachim
König & Marianne Wiesebron |
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In April 1995, Latin American historians from Europe
and Latin America met for a symposium at the Arts Faculty,
Leiden University. They came together in order to discuss
the formation of state and nation in Latin America.
This book contains a number of papers which start from
the premise that a nation is not established by a formal
act but is the result of a long-term construction process.
In this context, the papers discuss the particular importance
of regional forces to nineteenth century nation building.
Following new trends in the debate on the formation
of state and nation, which give more attention to local
levels, this book is divided into four parts. Part I
is dedicated to theoretical and methodological
reflections around new trends in the debate on state
formation. This is followed in Part II by ten case studies
on the complex and often conflictive relations between
local, regional and national interests. An intriguing
question, discussed in Part III, is the often problematic
role of the agencies of `national' institutions at the
local level: the interests of local government, the
local Church or Army. Part IV is dedicated to the most
abused phenomenon of all in political history and the
history of political ideas: nationalism.
(In Spanish & English, 374 pp., ill.)
Marianne
Wiesebron is editor of our Mauritiana
Series
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| ISBN
978-90-73782-97-6 |
| 628 pp. |
| Leiden
1998 |
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| De
Nederlandse koloniale lobby. Ondernemers en de Indische
politiek, 1914-1940 |
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| Arjen
Taselaar |
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In het vooroorlogse Nederlands-Indië werden door
Nederlandse bedrijven schatten verdiend met de export
van suiker, rubber, thee, tin, aardolie en tal van andere
producten. De latere Indonesische president Soekarno typeerde
de kolonie in 1930 als een 'paradijs' voor de kapitalisten.
Velen voor en na hem waren dezelfde mening toegedaan:
zij beschouwden de Nederlandse regering en het Nederlandse
bedrijfsleven als twee handen op één buik.
Na de tweede wereldoorlog leek dit te worden bevestigd
door de hardnekkigheid waarmee Nederland vasthield aan
zijn kolonie in Zuidoost-Azië, die toen haar onafhankelijkheid
bevocht.
In De Nederlandse koloniale lobby geeft Arjen
Taselaar antwoord op de vraag hoe hecht de betrekkingen
tussen het koloniale bedrijfsleven en de regeling nu werkelijk
waren. In de jaren 1914-1940 waren in Nederland diverse
Indische ondernemersorganisaties actief. Het was hun taak
te bereiken, dat in de koloniale politiek zoveel mogelijk
rekening werd gehouden met de belangen van de Indische
ondernemers in Amsterdam, Rotterdam en Den Haag. In die
organisaties werkten banken, cultuurmaatschappijen, handelshuizen,
mijnbouwmaatschappijen en andere bedrijven samen. Conflicten
(met de overheid, maar ook onderling) werden daarbij niet
geschuwd.
De Nederlandse koloniale lobby was een kracht, waarmee
de politiek terdege rekening moest houden.
(In Dutch, 628 pp. incl. photogr.)
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58 |
| ISBN
978-90-73782-92-1 |
| 248 pp. |
| Leiden
1997 |
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Kulasekhara Perumals of Travancore. History and State
Formation in Travancore from 1671 to 1758 |
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| Mark
de Lannoy |
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The Kulasekhara perumals of Travancore presents
the history of the kingdom of Travancore between 1671
and 1758. Under Martanda Varma (1729-1758) this kingdom,
now the southern part of modern Kerala, underwent rapid
changes in both the army and administration. The old established
kshatriya aristocracy gave way to new groups. The political
scene in Kerala too, rapidly changed after the failed
attempts of the Dutch to curb the growing influence of
Martanda Varma on Kerala politics. At the end of Martanda
Varma's reign he had conquered the major part of Kerala.
(In English, 248 pp. incl. bibl., maps and tables)
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| ISBN
978-90-73782-80-8
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| 138 pp. |
| Leiden
1997 |
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| The
Kingdom of Allada |
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| Robin
Law |
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The
Kingdom of Allada was, prior to the rise of Dahomey in
the early eighteenth century, the largest and most powerful
kingdom along what used to be called the Slave Coast.
It compromised the southern part of the modern republic
of Benin, West Africa.
The present book uses many sources, most of which recorded
by foreign visitors. Prominent among these are records
of the Dutch West India Company, but there are also Portuguese,
English and French sources.
The history of Allada, as one of the largest and most
important indigenous states of coastal West Africa encountered
by the Portuguese on their arrival in the region at the
end of the sixteenth century, and subsequently as a principal
supplier of slaves for the Atlantic slave trade, is perhaps
of sufficient intrinsic interest in itself to warrant
a detailed study. But in addition, the coincidence in
time of the kingdom's decline and overthrow with the expansion
of the Atlantic slave trade in the region makes it an
illuminating case-study of the impact of the latter on
indigenous African economic, social and political development.
(In English, 138 pp., incl. bibl.) |
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47 |
| ISBN
978-90-73782-68-6 |
| 400 pp. |
| Leiden
1996 |
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| Towards
redemption. A socio-political history of the Herero of
Namibia between 1890 and 1923 |
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| Jan
Bart Gewald |
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Between 1904 and 1908 Herero society in Namibia was destroyed
in a genocidal war against Imperial Germany. This book
deals with the politics of Herero society prior to its
destruction, and the manner in which this society reestablished
itself after the war. It goes beyond previous accounts
which all see the war as the totality of Herero history.
Rather it charts the context without which the war cannot
be understood.
Essentially this book details the socio-political history
of the Herero of Namibia during the reign of the first
Herero paramount, Samuel Maharero, between 1890 and 1923.
The first half deals with the ways in which the political
structures of Hereroland developed, in the last quarter
of the nineteenth century, but failed to cope with German
imperialism. The second half deals with Herero society
in de aftermath of the Herero-German war, where on the
basis of German militarism and missionary endeavour, Herero
society reestablished itself. By 1923, and the funeral
of Samuel Maharero, Herero society had redeveloped structures
which could and were used to attempt to cope with the
new South African colonial administration, and further
the struggle of the Herero toward redemption.
(In English, 400 pp.) |
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978-90-73782-74-7 |
| 340 pp. |
| Leiden
1996 |
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| Pilgrims to the past: Private conversations with
historians of European expansion |
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| Leonard
Blussé, Frans-Paul van der Putten and Hans Vogel
(eds.) |
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For twenty years, the journal Itinerario
has published interviews with leading historians in
the field of European Expansion. On the occasion of
Itinerario's twentieth anniversary the editors
have carefully selected twenty-seven of the best of
these interviews. This unique collection offers the
readers an insight into the history of European expansion
throughout the world, and an understanding of historiographical
developments over the past decades. The interviewees
are renowned specialists of overseas history. Their
combined expertise covers the globe, leaving no continent
unexplored.
(In
English, 340 pp., incl. photogr.)
Leonard
Blussé is editor of our Studies
in Overseas History Series.
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