To Live As Brothers. Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries.
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1993. Stock ID #180250 This book traces the fortunes of two interrelated kingdoms in southeast Sumatra - Jambi and Palembang - during a period of political and economic transformation. When referring to this item please quote stockid 180250.
Maps, xvii + 324pp, abbreviations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, dustjacket lightly sunned and rubbed, very good copy inscribed by the author to historian Professor Tony Reid.
The relationship between ruler and subject, the importance of kinship in all human dealings, and the ambiguous association between upstream and downstream are the three fundamental themes explored by Barbara Watson Andaya in a book that makes an important contribution to our understanding of premodern Indonesia.
Price: $95.00 AU