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 ...

The British explorer named dozens of geographical features and sites in the region, ignoring the traditions of the Indigenous ...

The map of Turkestan basically resembles the borders of ... In this light, the scenario in Central Asia, in some aspects, fits nicely with colonial history in general. Asia Society’s purpose is to ...

Alastair Bonnett talks to Graeme Gourlay about his latest book, 40 Maps That Will Change How You See The World.

This meant reframing the subject away from European colonial expansion and toward the internal ... earlier this year with his ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to ... The modern borders created by ...

Because imperial regimes as well as anticolonial activists attached great importance to young people, colonial history lends itself well to this analytical approach. In this course, we will look at ...

In an office wing of the Natural History Museum in London, two researchers slide open a plain storage cupboard door to reveal a hidden treasure: shelves of fossilised corals, up to 30 million years ...

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. xxx, 800+. Illus., maps, notes, biblio, index. $39.95. ISBN: 0674724615 War and Resistance in Colonial Asia Harper offers an excellent work ...

Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalization on a colonial industry in South Asia. Kumar discusses how the knowledge of indigo ...

By contrast the empires of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands were overseas settler colonies in ...

(AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America’s most lavish displays of ... the restoration will be done without the benefit of surviving maps or diagrams, relying instead ...