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Negotiating a New Order in the Straits of Malacca (1500–1700) [PDF]
, 2014 The Portuguese conquest of Malacca in 1511 was a watershed moment, revolutionising the history of the Straits region. Its impact and the local response, as well as the arrival of northern Europeans at the turn of the 16th into the 17th centuries ...
Ingrid S. Mitrasing
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A Green Energy Frontier Long in the Making: From Tin to Solar Power in the Riau Islands, Indonesia
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 6, Page 2508-2532, November 2025.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
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2025.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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Contemporary developments in the Portuguese Eurasian community of the Portuguese settlement, Malacca / Chin Poh Choo [PDF]
, 1983 This study is about the Portuguese Eurasian community of the Portuguese settlement, Malacca. The main purpose of this study is to give a clearer insight into the lives of the Portuguese Eurasians today – ie.
Chin , Poh Choo
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 9, September 2025.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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Ende Island Portuguese Fort: Historical Overview of Portuguese Defense in Ende
, 2023 The conquest of Malacca in 1511 by the Portuguese became the gateway for Portuguese trading ships to the Maluku and Banda islands in search of spices. This shipping route continued to the islands of Timor and Flores with the same mission until finally ...
Wati, Fatma
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 210-229, June 2025.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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European Architecture in Malacca
, 2016 The city of Malacca was founded ca. 1400 by Iskander Shah, but it belonged to Malays only for a century. From 1511 till 1957 this town was in possession of Europeans.
Sadowski, Łukasz
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Logo in Makista: irrealis and beyond
Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2019 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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Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 192-209, June 2025.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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