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  • Islam on the Move

    The Tablighi Jama'at in Southeast Asia

    by Farish A. Noor ...
    SHORTLISTED for the ICAS Book Prize 2013 http://www.icassecretariat.org/icas-book-prize-2013-shortlists. Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jama't, arguably the world's largest Islamic ... Read more

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  • The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse

    by Farish A. Noor ...
    Series series Asian History
    The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hyper-nationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their roots in the region's failure to come to a critical understanding of how current national and cultural ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900

    Framing the Other

    by Farish A. Noor ...
    Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers who wrote about Southeast Asia in the 19th century. In the course of their information-gathering they had also framed the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Malaysian Islamic Party PAS 1951-2013

    Islamism in a Mottled Nation

    by Farish A. Noor ...
    Series series Religion and Society in Asia
    The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS is the biggest opposition party in Malaysia today and one of the most prominent Islamist parties in Southeast Asia. This work recounts the historical development of PAS from 1951 to the present, and looks at how it has risen to become a political movement that is both local and transnational, tracking its rise from the Cold War to the age of the War on Terror, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900

    Before the Pivot

    by Farish A. Noor ...
    Series series Asian History
    A century before the Philippines came under American control, Americans were already travelling to Southeast Asia regularly. This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through their own cultural-political lenses. It argues that as Americans came to visit the region they also ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Spirit of Wood

    The Art of Malay Woodcarving

    by Eddin Khoo, Farish Noor ...
    With dozens of beautiful photographs and extensive text, this Malaysian art book is a testament to the skill and spirituality of Malaysia's traditional woodcarvers.Wood has always played a significant role in the Malay world, including the Malay Peninsula, as a means of shelter, livelihood, comfort and convenience. Among the living arts of Malaysia, woodcarving is one of the oldest, and for ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Racial Difference and the Colonial Wars of 19th Century Southeast Asia

    Edited by Farish Ahmad-Noor, Peter-Brian Ramsay Carey ...
    The colonisation of Southeast Asia was a long and often violent process where numerous military campaigns were waged by the colonial powers across the region. The notion of racial difference was crucial in many of these wars, as native Southeast Asian societies were often framed in negative terms as 'savage' and 'backward' communities that needed to be subdued and 'civilised'. This collection of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Conquest

    How Societies Overwhelm Others

    by David Day ...
    In this bold, sweeping book, David Day surveys the ways in which one nation or society has supplanted another, and then sought to justify its occupation - for example, the English in Australia and North America, the Normans in England, the Spanish in Mexico, the Japanese in Korea, the Chinese in Tibet. Human history has been marked by territorial aggression and expanion, an endless cycle of ... Read more

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  • Waves Across the South

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    by Sujit Sivasundaram ...
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  • A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818

    by Shannon Ryan ...
    The waters off Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic, held the world’s most abundant supply of codfish, which, when discovered, was in great demand. Unlike the fur trade—the other major early commercial activity in what is now mainland Canada—the production of codfish did not require year-round residence. It did, however, require numerous men, young and old, for the fishing season, which ran from ... Read more

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  • Aliens on Our Shores: An Anthropological History of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea 1616 to 1914

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