Rebellions or factionalism? Timorese forms of resistance in an early colonial context, 1650-1769

The history of Timor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is interspersed with conflicts where indigenous groups opposed polities with a partly European background. In Western historiography such conflicts are usually portrayed as rebellions against a given European colonial apparatus (Morais...

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Main Author: Hans Hägerdal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BRILL 2008-12-01
Series:Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
Online Access:http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv/article/view/20