| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Title page; Contents; Illustrations; Maps and genealogies; Spelling, weights and measures; Glossary; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1741154073 |
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9781741154078 |
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