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• Preface and acknowledgements
• A note on Illustrations
• List of maps and illustrations
• A Note on edition, translation and orthography
• Glossary
• Introduction
• Indigenous aristocracy and colonial history
• The author Candranegara and his network in a hybrid world
• Travel bestows authority
• The literary background of The Travels
• Account of the travels of Raden Mas Purwalelana, Volume One
• Preface by the person who made the corrections to this book
• Preface by the author
• The first journey
• From Salatiga to Semarang
• Semarang
• From Semarang to Batavia and visit to Batavia
• Bogor
• The Priangan Residency
• Ciamis and Cirebon
• The residencies of Tegal and Pekalongan, and back to Semarang
• The second journey
• From Salatiga to Semarang and Surabaya
• Surabaya
• The residency of Pasuruan
• The Tengger mountain ridge (continued) and the residency of Probolinggo
• The residency of Besuki
• Towards and in the residency of Banyuwangi
• From Sumberwaru back to Surabaya, and the regency of Mojokerto
• The residency of Kediri
• From Surabaya to Sedayu
• The residency of Rembang
• The residency of Jepara
• The regency of Demak, residency of Semarang
• The Travels of Raden Mas Arya Purwalelana, Volume Two
• The third journey
• Surakarta
• The regency of Pacitan and the residency of Madiun
• From Surakarta to the border of the residency of Madiun
• The residency of Madiun
• The residency of Rembang
• The regencies of Grobogan and Demak. The residency of Semarang
• The fourth journey
• The department of Ambarawa
• Mount Jambu and the residency of Kedu
• The principality of Yogyakarta
• Appendix A. A brief summary of pre-nineteenth century Javanese history
• The early Kingdoms
• New Islamic states and the VOC
• Appendix B. Alun-alun and kraton
• The kraton as centre of worldly power
• The kraton as sacred centre
• Appendix C. The Javanese calendar
• Appendix D. Colonial administration in Java
• Appendix E. Javanese titles, functions and honorifics
• Appendix F. Javanese
• The Javanese language
• Speech levels
• Appendix G. Javanese poetic conventions
• Appendix H. Weights and measurements
• Appendix I. Botanical names
• Bibliography
• Index.
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The Javanese nobleman Raden Mas Arya Candranegara V (1837-85), alias Purwalelana, journeyed across his homeland during the rapidly changing times of the nineteenth century. He travelled around 5,000 kilometres by horse and carriage between 1860 and 1875. His eye-witness account, The Travels of Purwalelana, gives an inside view of Java, at the time part of the Dutch East Indies. Candranegara explains habits and traditions of both the Javanese and the Dutch, he describes the architecture of cities and temples and he marvels about the beautiful tropical landscape as well as about the latest technological inventions such as steam trains, horse-drawn trams and gas lanterns. This Hakluyt publication, illustrated with contemporaneous images, presents the rare perspective of an Indonesian traveller living in colonial times. The author grew up as a member of a Javanese noble family in the hybrid world of the colonial upper class. He received a western-style education, but also learnt how to follow Javanese traditions and to be a good Muslim. In 1858 he was appointed to the high rank of Regent of Kudus by the colonial government. Candranegara wrote his book under the pseudonym Purwalelana, probably because he considered publishing to be an adventurous undertaking and possibly also because it gave him freedom to arrange the events in his own way. The Travels represents the first Javanese travelogue ever written and, as such, it broke with existing traditions. Candranegara used prose instead of poetry, wrote from a first-person perspective rather than a third-person, and he described present society rather than dwelling upon the common literary theme of kings in battle. The result is a lively story in which the armchair traveller shares his experiences on the road. It provides its readers with a range of people and topics pivotal to developments in nineteenth century Java, a treasure trove for historians and cultural anthropologists alike. The volume includes 24 colour illustrations.
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• Volume 1. The Twelfth Century
• vol. II. The Early Thirteenth Century, c.1200-c.1240.

• Contents: Preface
• Introduction: Banks and Iceland
• Textual introduction
• Introduction to the journals
• The Iceland journal of Sir Joseph Banks I: from 12 July 1772 to 6 September 1772
• The Iceland journal of Sir Joseph Banks II
• The Iceland journal of James Roberts
• Calendar of letters and documents
• The Iceland correspondence and documents of Sir Joseph Banks, 1772-1820
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Sir Joseph Banks was one of the great figures of Georgian England, best known for participating as naturalist in Cook's Endeavour voyage (1768-71), as a patron of science and as the longest-serving President of the Royal Society (1778-1820). This volume brings together all Banks's papers concerning Iceland and the North Atlantic, scattered in repositories in Britain, the United States, Australia and Denmark, and most published here for the first time. A detailed introduction places them in historical context.
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• The letters. Scotland to the Cape June 1819-February 1820
• On the frontier June 1820-July 1822
• Cape Town: triumph and disaster October 1822-October 1824
• Genadendal respite October 1824-January 1825
• Albany and Baviaans River March-June 1825
• Great Karoo- travels and campaigning July-September 1825
• Baviaans River departure September 1825-January 1826
• Cape Town to London February 1826-October 1827
• Anti-slavery, literature, Cape connexions September 1827-June 1832
• From climax to last days January 1833-November 1834.

Wilt Idema is one of the world's leading scholars and translators of Chinese literature, with research interests ranging from classical poetry to premodern fiction, performance literature and women's writing. His oeuvre is exceptional in its inclusiveness and its ability to let different historical periods, genres and issues speak to one another, and to make the riches of Chinese literature accessible to a wide range of readers. In honor of his work, this collection brings together new research by twenty-two prominent scholars in a field of tremendous scope and diversity, on topics including genre characteristics, literary representations of social and political history, gender and cultural identity, music, autobiography, women's writing, internet literature and more.
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For nearly 700 years, the Chinese state exercised control over the minority peoples in its border provinces through the hereditary native chieftaincies (tusi). Utilizing fieldwork carried out by PRC authorities in the 1950s, this book investigates a Zhuang tusi in Guangxi. It explores the history and institutions of the tusi system, and discusses the dual quality of the tusi chieftaincy as a Chinese franchise and a non-Chinese polity. It describes the social structure, village administration and land tenure system of this tusi, the customary institutions of its ruling clan, and the impact of the replacement by direct Chinese rule in the 20th century. It also sheds light on the political management of the strategically sensitive Chinese-Vietnamese border over 600 years.
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