Penang and its networks of knowledge
This collection of contributions from a group of well known scholars highlights historic Penang's connections with the outside world, particularly how they were achieved and maintained. The port was established in the late 18th century to serve the region in the traffic of goods, but here we di...
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Penang
Areca Books
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Gathering knowledge in the Bay of Bengal, the letters of John Adolphus Pope, 1785-1788 / Barbara Watson Andaya
- Regional networks of knowledge, the Penang College General and beyond / Anthony Reid
- Emplacing a network religion in a world in motion, evangelical Christianity and the Brethren movement in Penang / Jean DeBernardi
- Indian Ocean connections, illuminated Islamic manuscripts from Penang / Annabel Teh Gallop
- A view from the hill, romantic imaginings and improvement in early Penang / Christina Skott
- New ways of knowing, the Prince of Wales Island gazzette, Penang's first newspaper / Geoff Wade
- Secret histories of the colonial city, Penang viewed through the 1867 riots / Anoma Pieris
- The press and pan-Islamism / Khoo Salma Nasution
- Cosmopolitanism and the modern girl, a cross-cultural discourse in 1930s Penang / Su Lin Lewis
- The changing perceptions of waqf and other religious endowments, social, cultural, and symbolic capital in Penang / Judith Nagata
- At the crossroads of history and development, an urban kampung as unseen heritage and a critique of development in Penang / Peter Zabielskis.