Held's history of Sumbawa : an annotated translation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Held, G. H. (Gerrit Jan), 1906-1955, author.
Uniform title:	Sumbawa. English
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations, map, genealogical tables
Language:	English
Series:	Asian History ; 2 Asian history ; 2.
Subject:	Sumbawa Island (Indonesia) -- History. Indonesia -- Sumbawa Island. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12483865

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Varying Form of Title:	History of Sumbawa
Other authors / contributors:	Hägerdal, Hans, translator.
ISBN:	9789048531271 9048531276 9789462981614 9462981612
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from Dutch. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 29, 2018).
Summary:	Sumbawa is a medium-sized island in eastern Indonesia which has a particularly interesting past. In the premodern era it lay on the trade routes that connected the north coasts of the islands of Melaka and Java with the spice-producing areas in Maluku, while Sumbawa itself exported horses, sappan wood, and rice. Its recorded history covers periods of Hindu-Javanese influence, the Southeast Asian Age of Commerce, early Islamisation, and Dutch colonialism. Dutch Indologist Gerrit Jan Held wrote this book in 1955 but died before it could be published; this volume represents its first translation into English, and includes extensive footnotes that set it in context of current research.

Table of Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Translator's introduction; 1. The ancient period; 2. Islam and Makassar; The Sumbawa Kingdom; 3. The Sumbawan kingdoms under VOC suzerainty (1); The Sumbawa Kingdom; Bima; The Tambora Kingdom; Dompu; 4. The Sumbawan kingdoms under VOC suzerainty (2); The Sumbawa Kingdom; Bima; 5. In the wake of the Tambora disaster; Bima; The Sumbawa Kingdom; Dompu; The Sumbawa Kingdom; Bima; Dompu; 6. From colonial rule to independence; Dompu; Appendix: Lists of Sumbawan rulers; Bibliography; Index; List of Figures and Tables; Figures
Figure 1
A woman pounding grain in a highland village of West SumbawaFigure 2
A traditional storehouse in the highland village Punik; Figure 3
The impressive gate of the old wooden palace of Sumbawa Besar, Dalam Loka; Figure 4
Ministerial buildings in the palace compound of Bima; Figure 5
A frontal view of the Dalam Loka, the old palace of Sumbawa Besar, which was built in 1885; Figure 6
The sultan's palace in Bima, completed in 1930 after the old palace had burned down in 1924; Tables; Table 1
Sumbawan-Makassarese aristocratic marriages
Table 2
Genealogy of the sultans of BimaTable 3
Genealogy of the sultans of Sumbawa

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