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Macassan history and heritage: journeys, encounters and influences
This book presents inter-disciplinary perspectives on the maritime journeys of the Macassan trepangers who sailed in fleets of wooden sailing vessels known as praus from the port city of Makassar in southern Sulawesi to the northern Australian coastline. These voyages date back to at least the 1700s and there is new evidence to suggest that the Macassan praus were visiting northern Australia ev…
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- 9781922144973
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- vi, 238p. : ill.
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- 303.482 CLA m
Principled pragmatism : VOC interaction with Makassar 1637-68 and the Nature …
In this study of the Dutch East India Company the author uses the Company’s seventeenth century diplomatic interaction with the trading Sultanate of Macassar, on the southwestern tip of present day Sulawesi, as a case in cross cultural diplomacy. The author argues that the outlook of the Company’s agents both home and overseas was pragmatic, as was the nature of the solutions to the problem…
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- 9788202566609
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- 375 p.
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- 959.8 FRE p
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