SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Brown, Ian (1997) Economic change in South East Asia c 1830-1980. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

Robb, Peter (1997) Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 and British Rule in India. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon.

Book Chapters

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'The Burmese.' In: Levinson, David and Ember, Melvin, (eds.), American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. USA: Macmillan Reference, pp. 115-118.

Clarence-Smith, William (1997) 'Hadhramaut and the Hadhrami diaspora in the modern colonial era: an introductory survey [and] The economic role of the Hadhrami diaspora in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden [and] Hadhrami entrepreneurs in the Malay world c 1740-1940.' In: Freitag, Ulrike and Clarence-Smith, William, (eds.), Hadhrami traders scholars and statesmen in the Indian Ocean 1750s to 1960s. Leiden: E J Brill. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia; 57)

Clarence-Smith, William (1997) 'The Rivaud-Hallet plantation group in the economic crises of the inter-war years.' In: Lanthier, Pierre and Watelet, Hubert, (eds.), Private enterprises during economic crises: tactics and strategies. Ottawa: Legas, pp. 117-32.

Dikötter, Frank (1997) 'A History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in China.' In: Lewis, M, Bamber, S and Waugh, M, (eds.), Sex Disease and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/Aids in Asia and the Pacific. Wesport (Conn.): Greenwood Press, pp. 67-83.

Dikötter, Frank (1997) 'Racial Discourse in China: Continuities and Permutations.' In: Dikötter, Frank, (ed.), The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. London: Hurst, pp. 12-33.

Fuccaro, Nelida (1997) 'Die Kurden Syriens: Anfänge der nationalen Mobilisierung unter französischen Herrschaft.' In: Borck, C., Savelsberg, A. and Hajo, S., (eds.), Ethnizität, Nationalismus, Religion und Politik in Kurdistan. Münster: LIT Verlag, pp. 64-70.

Powell, Avril (1997) 'Processes of Conversion to Christianity in 19th Century North Western India.' In: Oddie, Geoffrey A., (ed.), Religious Conversion Movements in South Asia: Continuities and Change 1800-1900. London: Curzon Press, pp. 15-55.

Journal Article

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Shallow-draft Boats, Guns, and the Aye-ra-wa-ti: Continuity and Change in Ship Structure and River Warfare in Precolonial Myanma.' Oriens Extremus, 40 (1). pp. 16-63.

Dikötter, Frank (1997) 'Crime and punishment in post-liberation China: The prisoners of Beijing gaol in the 1950s.' The China Quarterly, 149. pp. 147-59.

Dooling, Wayne (1997) 'Cape settler society at the time of slave emancipation.' Kleio, 29 (1). pp. 19-57.

Fuccaro, Nelida (1997) 'Ethnicity, State Formation and Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq: the Case of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 29 (4). pp. 559-580.

Hawting, Gerald (1997) 'The Literary Context of Muslim Tradition about pre-Islamic Arab Idolatry.' Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 21. pp. 21-41.

Hawting, Gerald (1997) 'Shirk and Idolatry in Monotheist Polemic.' Israel Oriental Studies: Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam, 17. pp. 107-26.

Laamann, Lars (1997) 'Von Bodissattva Guanyin zur Jungfrau Maria - einige Aspekte zur Inkulturation des Christentums im China des achtzehnten und frühen neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.' Spirita: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, 12 (1). pp. 4-11.

Robb, Peter (1997) 'The Colonial State and Constructions of Indian Identity: an Example on the North-East Frontier in the 1880s.' Modern Asian Studies, 31 (2). pp. 245-283.

Book Reviews

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Review of Andrew Huxley, 'Thai Law: Buddhist Law. Essays on the Legal History of Thailand, Laos and Burma'.' Journal of Asian Studies, 56 (3). pp. 852-853.

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Review of Ben Kiernan, 'The Pol Pot Regime'.' Internationales Asienforum, 28 (2/3). pp. 258-260.

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Review of David Chandler, 'A Short History of Cambodia'.' Internationales Asienforum, 28 (2/3). pp. 257-258.

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Review of David Murray, 'Angels and Devils: Thai Politics from February 1991 to September 1992-A Struggle for Democracy?'.' Journal of Asian Studies, 56 (3). pp. 863-864.

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Review of Ian Mabbett and David Chandler, 'The Khmers'.' Internationales Asienforum, 28 (1). pp. 103-105.

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Review of M. E. Yapp, 'The Near East Since the First World War: A History to 1995'.' H-Net Reviews .

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Review of Ronald Renard, 'The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle'.' Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 11 (2).

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Review of Sorpong Peou, 'Cambodia after the Cold War: The Search for Security Continues'.' Internationales Asienforum, 28 (1). pp. 105-106.

Charney, Michael W. (1997) 'Review of Webb Keane, 'Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society'.' Asian Affairs, 28 (3). pp. 391-392.