Power and Prowess: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak

ISBN-13: 9780824825003 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 320 str.

J. H. Walker

Opis

;Power and Prowess reexamines the formation of Sarawak in the middle of the nineteenth century, offering a detailed political history of the period as well as a new interpretation of the establishment of the state by James Brooke and the reactions of indigenous leaders and groups.

Spis treści

Illustrations

Maps and genealogies

Spelling, weights and measures

Glossary

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Approaching 19th-century Sarawak

1 Power and prowess in northwest Borneo

2 Insurgency and the foundations of Brooke power

3 Integration and exclusion in the early Brooke state

4 The Iban challenge

5 Competition, resistance and ritual in patron-client systems

6 Chinese power and the failure of prowess

7 The Rejang basin

8 The succession to Sarawak

9 'Doing honour to the Rajah'

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Dr John Walker is a Lecturer in Politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australia. He is the author of numerous articles on the history of Sarawak and also Australia's strategic policy and planning.