MALAY ARCHIPELAGO

great island group of SE Asia, formerly called the East Indies. Lying between the Asian mainland and Australia, and separating the Pacific Ocean from the Indian Ocean, it includes Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and E Malaysia.

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books on: Malay Archipelago  - 956 results

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1.
Malay Muslims: The History and Challenge of Resurgent Islam in Southeast Asia
Book by Robert Day Mcamis; W.B. Eerdmans, 2002
Subjects: Christianity And Other Religions--Islam, Islam--Relations--Christianity, Islam--Southeast Asia--History, Malays (Asian People)--Religion, Muslims--Malay Archipelago--History
...spread through Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Sulu Archipelago, and western Mindanao in the...Advent of Muhammadanism in the Malay Peninsula and Ar- chipelago...footing in the islands of the Malay Archipelago. John Rauws...
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The Malay Peninsula: Crossroads of the Maritime Silk Road (100 BC-1300 AD)
Book by Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'H, Victoria Hobson; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Malay Peninsula--Antiquities, Malay Peninsula--Commerce--History, Malay Peninsula--History, Malay Peninsula--Religion
...history of the entrep6t port civilization in the Malay Peninsula that opens up at the beginning of...instance of Islamic writing, or Arabic, in the Malay language (known locally as Jawi) found in the Malay Archipelago. (Ibidem).
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Malay Political Leadership
Book by Anthony S. K. Shome; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Leadership--Malaysia--History, Political Leadership--Malaysia--History
...Muslim is not regarded Malay. Folklore puts the origins of the Malays from Palembang, Sumatra and the Riau-Lingga archipelago. Whatever it is, Malay was a convenient holistic...Malaya. However, the Malays were not content and sought...
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Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
Book by Peter Bellwood; University of Hawaii Press, 1997
Subjects: Indonesia--Antiquities, Malaysia--Antiquities, Prehistoric Peoples--Indonesia, Prehistoric Peoples--Malaysia
...sea research in the East Indian Archipelago". Geographical Journal 57:95...and environmental changes in the Malay Archipelago". In T. C. Whitmore ed. , Biogeographical Evolution of the Malay Archipelago , 50-59. Mountain...
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Nusantara: A History of the East Indian Archipelago
Book by Bernard H. M. Vlekke; Harvard university Press, 1943
Subjects: East Indies--History, Indonesia--History, Netherlands--Colonies--Administration
...Others place Cho-p'o and Ho-lo-tan on the Malay Peninsula. 26. English translation by J. Takakasu...the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and in the Malay Archipelago Oxford, 1896 . Coedes, Les Etats hindouises , p...
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journal articles on: Malay Archipelago  - 320 results

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To the Islands: White Australians and the Malay Archipelago since 1788
Journal article by Mary Kilcline Cody; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, To the Islands: White Australians and the Malay Archipelago Since 1788 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Islands: White Australians and the Malay Archipelago since 1788. by Mary Kilcline Cody...Pacific Island plantation workers and Malay and Filipino pearl divers created...conflict. While the establishment of Malay kampong on Thursday and Mulgrave...
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Chinese Studies of the Malay World: A Comparative Approach
Journal article by Hong Liu; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 19, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Chinese Studies of the Malay World: A Comparative Approach (Book)--Book reviews
...in China and in the various Malay polities", given that relations between China and the Malay World are built on "at least...leading to the distrust of the Malay trading elite; the newly arrived...were seen as displacing the Malays of their opportunities; the...informative account of the Archipelago emanating from a Chinese scholar...
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Understanding Melayu (Malay) as a Source of Diverse Modern Identities
Journal article by Anthony Reid; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 32, 2001
Subjects: Ethnicity--Malaysia, Malays (Asian people)--Social aspects, Malaysia--Social aspects, Nationalism--Malaysia
...extent of speaking Malay and practising Islam...dispersed around the Archipelago this diaspora (or...majority) became simply Malays. A decade after the...referring to all who spoke Malay as Malays. Malay had been the lingua...Dutch empire in the Archipelago since the mid-seventeenth...
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Javanese-Malay: Between Adaptation and Alienation
Journal article by Koji Miyazaki; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 15, 2000
Subjects: Malays (Asian people)--Emigration and immigration
...that Javanese-Malays are not good in the Malay language. This...lingua franca of the archipelago, must have been...younger Javanese-Malays can hardly understand Javanese and are Malay monolingual...forms, Javanese-Malays in Johor seldom...Javanese. (15.) Malay has been used as...lingua franca in the archipelago, although it consists...
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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction
Journal article by Anthony Milner; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 34, 2003
Subjects: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction (Book)
...fauna and inhabitants of the Archipelago. By the time Conrad was writing, Malay studies had changed course...observer might be seduced by Malay culture--might be denationalized...expressed doubts as to whether the Malays were really better off as a...areas, Hampsons discussion of Malay studies is so detailed and...
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magazine articles on: Malay Archipelago  - 63 results

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The Future of Indonesia: Merle Ricklefs Seeks Clue for the Future of the Troubled Archipelago Nation in Its Distant Past
Magazine article by Merle Ricklefs; History Today, Vol. 53, December 2003
Subjects: Indonesia--Forecasts and trends, Indonesia--History, Indonesia--Military policy
...These products circulated around the archipelago on the basis of natural comparative...continuities also connected the archipelagos population centres. Islam provided...century Aceh spread across the archipelago, in Malay and in local translations...common language. This review of the archipelagos history suggests that those with...might do well to consider how the archipelago functioned in the 1480s. They might...
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Reading the Archipelago
Magazine article by Alan Cheuse; The Antioch Review, Vol. 60, Fall 2002
Subjects: Borneo--Portrayals, Conrad, Joseph--Criticism and interpretation, Exoticism, Literary techniques, Literary themes, Literature--Themes, motives, Maugham, W. Somerset--Criticism and interpretation
Reading the Archipelago. by Alan Cheuse Last year...first two volumes of the Malay trilogy, which includes...of the European and his Malay wife. When you look at...traders--characters and the Malays with as much careful detail...all of the elements of the archipelagos culture that lead to the...and other natives of the archipelago, Eurasians, Dutch colonial...
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Into a Lost World - the Mergui Archipelago, Closed to Tourists until 1997, Is One of the Last Untouched Areas on Earth Left to Explore
Magazine article by Masha Nordbye; World and I, Vol. 15, August 2000
Subjects: Cable television, Cable television broadcasting industry, Discovery Communications Inc., Motion picture locations--Personal narratives, Movie locations--Personal narratives
...Lost World - the Mergui Archipelago, Closed to Tourists until...farther south along the Malay peninsula by the nineteenth...Kawthong, the gateway to the archipelago. Upon the muddy banks stood...of Singapore), as the archipelagos first national park. The...gypsies still wander the archipelago. Recently the government...
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Jihad Archipelago
Magazine article by Greg Sheridan; The National Interest, Winter 2004
Subjects: Mahathir, Mohamad, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Politics--Analysis, Terrorism
Jihad Archipelago. by Greg Sheridan...overlap. The majority Malay population is Islamic...affirmative action" for the Malays, the bumiputras...party, the United Malays National Organization...substantial Indian and Malay minorities. It is...
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Wandering on the Waves: Sebastian Hope Travels to the Waters off the Malay Peninsula in an Effort to Document the Rapidly Disappearing Lifestyle of Indonesia's Semi-Nomadic Sea Gypsies
Magazine article by Sebastian Hope; Geographical, Vol. 76, April 2004
Subjects: Bajau (Southeast Asian people)--Social aspects, Boat living, Southeast Asia
...imagination. It enabled the Malay peoples to spread out from...fostered the rise of the first Malay trading empires, Indonesians...land and sea. Yet for some Malay peoples, and largely as an...among the island of the Sulu Archipelago, that most reluctant part...
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newspaper articles on: Malay Archipelago  - 38 results

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Malaysia on the Move; "The Malay Habit of Calling Foreigners "Tuan" or "Master" Was Taken as an Acceptance That Europeans Were in Fact the Master of the Malays." -- Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, "The Malay Dilemma" (1970)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 16, 2006
...coalition party, UMNO (United Malays National Organization) celebrated...controversial book, "The Malay Dilemma" which sought not only the liberation of the Malay race from colonial bondage...is whether to admit non-Malays, whether Muslim or otherwise...85 million population, an archipelago smaller than the landmass...
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MALAY DAYS; with a Private Butler, Beach and Really, Really Big Infinity Pool, Nothing Is Done by Half on the Pangkor Laut Estates, Says Andrew Barker
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 17, 2011
MALAY DAYS; with a Private Butler...associated with the Indonesian archipelago below. I was staying on the...mixture of three cultures: Malay, Indian and Chinese, and...I chose a Lapis-Lapis Malay herbal wrap and was scrubbed...
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Rizal, the Balangays, and Mount Everest
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 25, 2010
...Indonesia was once the Malay Archipelago. Prehistoric people...first to explore the archipelago around 30,000 BC. The Proto-Malays who were seafarers...were the Duetero-Malays who were skilled...came from the "Malay Archipelago" and...
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Mail-Boat Record 'Proves Darwin Stole His Original Ideas from a Welsh Scientist' Book Claims Letters Reveal Hidden Truth
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 24, 2008
Subjects: Evolution, Evolution (Biology), Scientists
...exactly which boats picked up Wallaces mail in the Malay Archipelago (now Malaysia and Indonesia), where he was working...overshadowed. While feverish with malaria on the Malay Archipelago in 1858, Wallace wrote to Darwin explaining his...
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Japan at War with USA and Britain Declaration after Bombing American Bases Attacks on Hawaii and Manila
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 26, 1998
Subjects: Japan
...in the North Pacific Ocean about 200 miles south-west of San Francisco. The Philippines, largest group of the Malay Archipelago, extend almost due north and south from Formosa to Borneo. Between the two groups are the Japanese m andated Caroline...
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encyclopedia articles on: Malay Archipelago  - 22 results

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Malay Archipelago
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MALAY ARCHIPELAGO great island group of SE Asia, formerly called the East Indies. Lying between the Asian mainland and Australia, and separating...
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Malay Peninsula
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MALAY PENINSULA m la...often included in the Malay Archipelago). A mountain range...foodstuff. People The Malays, historically the...as numerous as the Malays; Indians and Thais...descendants of pre-Malay immigrants, are...
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Philippines, The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...000 sq km), SW Pacific, in the Malay Archipelago off the SE Asia mainland. It comprises...encompassing Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago. In addition to Manila, other...of the Philippines belong to the Malay group and are known as Filipinos...
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Indonesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sq km), SE Asia, in the Malay Archipelago. The fourth most populous...Bahasa Indonesia (a form of Malay), was adopted after independence...up almost entirely of ethnic Malays. The countrys economy was...Indonesia and large areas of the Malay Peninsula. A gradual infiltration...
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Pacific Ocean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Indian Ocean by passages in the Malay Archipelago and between Australia and Antarctica...between the Isthmus of Panama and the Malay Peninsula. The principal arms of...include the Japanese island arc, the Malay Archipelago, and the islands of...
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