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... baffling problems, especially as to its authorship, and we hope, through publishing it in this journal of wide circulation among students of Asian history, to learn the answers to some of these mysteries. From internal evidence, it is clear that this narrative was originally written in English within two...

... process through a combination of diachronic and synchronic approaches. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 decolonizing history design empire and imperial formation fieldwork history from below narrative method non-Western histories provincializing Europe...

... the problem of "by whom" and "for whom" national histories should be written (p. 515). He examines the emergence of various types of "history from below," emphasizing the importance and the strengths of such work, as well as lamenting the way in which some practitioners of "history from below" have positioned...

... historical narratives of South 947 948 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Asian history. This move entails negotiating the gaps existing in the historiography: between the "high politics" approaches to the Transfer of Power and the popular accounts of Partition in 'history from below' and in recent fiction. He...

... than the one that prevails at present, one that would allow local intellectuals to engage freely in the study of their own historical records and, at the same time, encourage researchers to write history “from below” by applying the methods of oral history to explore the recent past. Millward's...

... complexities of the colonial and imperial governmentality. Empire of Convicts engages with postcolonial criticism's question of the subaltern voice, particularly in the colonial Indian histories. As a self-defined part of such subaltern scholarship, or, to use Anand A. Yang's phrase, “a history from...

... one, during the high Qing era and illustrates the yet untapped wealth of the Qing archive to reconstruct this history from below. The sole fact that Chinese piracy has returned to China s southern ocean and has grown on a scale at least comparable to the People s Republic of China s impressive growth...

... literature, and is also among the favorites of former Prime Minister Tungku Abdul Rahman. In thus providing a social history "from below" and moving peasant actors especially those living "outside the law" onto the center stage of analysis, this work constitutes an important departure from the "national...

... literature, and is also among the favorites of former Prime Minister Tungku Abdul Rahman. In thus providing a social history "from below" and moving peasant actors especially those living "outside the law" onto the center stage of analysis, this work constitutes an important departure from the "national...

... centers of St. Petersburg and Moscow. The result is a model of colonial history "from below," revealing through meticulous research and judicious extrapolation the dramatic story of a nomadic people confronting a mighty imperial state. Martin's account of the interaction of nomadic peoples and tsarist...

... and the 1905 swadeshi upsurge against Curzon's partition of Bengal are each dismissed with a paragraph. Sarkar, by contrast, while never denying the importance of conflicts among Indians, keeps popular opposition to the Raj always at the forefront. Determined so far as he can to write a "history from below...

... politics. The author's engagement with cultural history methods and her championing of history-from-below is admirable. If in the wake of subaltern studies, concerns still existed about the validity of micro-historical and biographical approaches, Kim has surely put those doubts to rest. Overall, this book...

... Government of India Act is necessary. He pleads that this study of "high politics" can then be placed beside studies of the sociopolitical forces operating in India, or histories "from below" that in order to get a fuller explanation of the "politics of partition," one must look at the "politics of unity...

... they issued their challenge. This is social history at its best and it offers welcome proof that even though cultural history is all the rage, it is premature to lament the death of "history from below," for notwithstanding the cultural historian's mantra of "race, class and gender," most acknowledgments...

... Government of India Act is necessary. He pleads that this study of "high politics" can then be placed beside studies of the sociopolitical forces operating in India, or histories "from below" that in order to get a fuller explanation of the "politics of partition," one must look at the "politics of unity...

... of colonial history "from below," revealing through meticulous research and judicious extrapolation the dramatic story of a nomadic people confronting a mighty imperial state. Martin's account of the interaction of nomadic peoples and tsarist empire must, by its very nature, tell a tale of both colonial...

... behavior, for this smart thesis insightfully perceives the pressures that an uneven prosperity must have borne upon all local societies, not just the littoral one, during the high Qing era and illustrates the yet untapped wealth of the Qing archive to reconstruct this history from below. The sole fact...

... century and the end of the seventeenth. These were the years when traders and adventurers from many parts of the world fanned out through the "lands below the wind" and left behind a rich array of documents recording their activities and impressions. Reid has set out ambitiously to write a complete...

.... $2.75. Mr. Clayton's title Heaven below is derived from the Chinese saying "Above is heaven, below Soo Hang" (Soochow and Hangchow). We should have been glad to hear more of the attractions of Hangchow and its surroundings and the high place it has held in Chinese poetry and history. Held in affection...

... of the later Kamakura period are treated in two shorter studies that appear in a volume of essays edited by Hall and Mass in 1974.18 That volume, which I discuss below, covers various aspects of institutional history from the Heian to Muromachi periods. The main currents of change in the later Kamakura power...