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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Held, Gerrit Jan
• Hägerdal, Hans

Titel

Held's History of Sumbawa : An Annotated Translation

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2017]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Sumbawa is a medium-sized island in eastern Indonesia that 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 Islamization, 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 it includes extensive footnotes that set it in context of current research