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Macau, Bali and the Malay World: A Gastronomic Perspective
Macau’s location on the South China Sea suggests that any syncretic activity would have been of Sinitic-Portuguese variety. However, the situation is rather more nuanced, as the culture of the Macanese people, who consider themselves the ‘sons of the ...
Annabel Jackson +2 more
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Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations
Abstract This study examines how historical rail stations condition long‐run development using Colonial Malaya as a laboratory. By constructing novel historical data on rail stations, agglomeration centres, tin mines, and rubber plantations dating back a century and matching contemporary data on economic activity at the 1‐km cell level, we find that ...
Yit Wey Liew +2 more
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Slavery, Family and Childhood in the Portuguese Diaspora in Southeast Asia, 16th-17th Centuries
The Portuguese communities in Asia were mainly concerned with maritime commerce, which required long periods on board. The families of most of these merchants resided on land, in cities such as Goa, Cochin, Malacca and Macao, and included numerous slaves
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá
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A Green Energy Frontier Long in the Making: From Tin to Solar Power in the Riau Islands, Indonesia
Abstract The Riau Islands in Indonesia, Southeast Asia are an emerging green energy frontier. This paper shows the long‐term making of this frontier. Through qualitative research, I trace colonial machinations for the capture of agrarian and mineral resources, postcolonial Cold War manoeuvres for the procurement of oil, and the contemporary quest for ...
Nikita Sud
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Labour Mobility and Colonial and Forced Labour Regimes in Indonesia: A Long‐Term View
ABSTRACT Incorporated into the global economy to provide the commodities for core capitalist countries, Indonesia experienced a variety of predominantly unfree labour regimes that connected local societies to global markets. These regimes varied from slavery, coerced labour imposed by colonial authorities, to extensive patterns of leverage employers ...
Ulbe Bosma
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ABSTRACT Aim Identify biogeographic boundaries that delineate the distribution of species assemblages along global non‐insular coastlines, characterise the potential barriers responsible for biogeographic boundaries and realign coastal biogeographic provinces. Location Global. Time Period Not applied. Major Taxa Studied Animalia.
Everton Giachini Tosetto +5 more
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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Logo in Makista: irrealis and beyond
Makista is endogenous to Macau and belongs to the Asian group of Portuguese-lexified creoles. Academic works have highlighted several close similarities to the Malacca Portuguese Creole (Kristang), and Batavia and Tugu Portuguese Creole, as well as ...
Mário Pinharanda Nunes
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This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
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(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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