| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 345 pages) |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History
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| Contents |
Half title page; Series page; Full title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; List of Graphs; List of Maps; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; I: Prologue: Brunei versus Borneo; An Apparently Unfavourable Geography; The Best Port in West Borneo; A Relatively Strategic Site; II: From Thalassocracy to Rentier State; Introduction: Sources and Methodology; Premises and Emergence of the Bruneian Thalassocracy: First Settlements and End of the Ice Age (40,000 BCE-600CE); Brunei from Srivijaya to the Ming Dynasty (7th-15th Centuries); The Golden Age of Brunei (1500-78) |
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New Commercial Routes and Internal Rivalries (1600-1905): The Dutch Card and Its FailureThe Double Gap in the 18th Century; Playing the British Card and Its Avatars (1803-1905); From Residency to Independence (1906-84): Establishment of ""Modern"" Government and Administration (1906-41); The Japanese Interlude and the End of the Residency (1942-59); From Internal Autonomy to Independence (1984); III: Independence and After, 1984-2014; Political Independence: Well-tempered Modernisation, 1984-89; Full Steam Ahead! (1989-99); Running Before the Wind and Tacking (2000-14) |
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From Hydrocarbon Rent to Financial Rent: Absolute Dominance of HydrocarbonsStructural Trade Surplus; Successful Regional Integration; Evaluating the Bruneian Model: Internal and External Surpluses; From Surplus to Assets; An Unusual Model; IV: Adat Istiadat and Societal Management; Seeking the Brunei Paradigm; Orang Melayu, Orang Brunei?: Demographic Expansion; Education as a Recent Phenomenon; Malays = Civil Servants; Adat Istiadat: Evolution of Royal Custom; Opening Up of the Hierarchy (1958-2014); Tradition as an Instrument for Managing Society |
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Melayu Islam Beraja: The Making of History in the Service of PowerPower at the Service of Religion -- And Vice Versa; State Ideology -- But with Rule of Law; Conclusion: Durable Consensus?; Appendices; Thematic Bibliography; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-330) and index |
| Notes |
English translation of the author's original French work |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Asian.
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Brunei -- Politics and government
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Brunei -- Economic conditions
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Brunei -- History
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| Subject |
Brunei
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lanyer, Aemilia
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| LC no. |
2015322167 |
| ISBN |
9789971698690 |
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9971698692 |
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