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2003 (2003/1; 2003/2; 2003/3-4)

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Issue 1

Interview
'In Partibus Infidelium'. An interview with Jan Heesterman.

Conference Report
H.E. Niemeijer, New PhD Studies on Asian and South African history 1600-1800: A Conference Report on the Second TANAP Workshop 'Asia in the Age of Partnership'.

Archives
Lennart Bes, Hundreds of Rosetta Stones and Other Patient Papers: The Dutch Records at the Tamil Nadu Archives, Chennai (Madras)

Articles
Alexander Keese, Quelques satisfactions d'amour-propre: African elite integration, the Loi-cadre, and involuntary decolonisation of French Tropical Africa
Baz Lecocq, This Country is Your Country: Territory, Borders, and Decentralisation in Tuareg Politics
J.L. Blussé, Four Hundred Years On: The Public Commemoration of the Founding of the VOC in 2002


Reviews
Marion Peters and Ferry André de la Porte, In Steen Geschreven: Leven en Sterven van VOC-dienaren op de Kust van Coromandel in India (Gijs Kruijtzer)
Robert H. Taylor ed., The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa (Jennifer Lofkrantz)
Jos Gommans, Mughal Warfare: Indian and Highroads to Empire (Markus Vink)
Peter H. Hoffenberg, An Empire on Display: English, Indian and Australian Exhibitions from Crystal Palace to the Great War (Nigel A. Worden)
Michael O. West, The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965 (Ian Phimister)
Jeremy Black, Western Warfare, 1775-1882 (Patrick J. Speelman)
Jeremy Black, Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975 (Andrew Wilson)
Jeffrey Cox, Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940 (Roger B. Beck)
Beverly C. McMillan ed., Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas (Matthew Restall)
David Eltis ed., Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives (Felipe Fernandez-Armesto)
Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi eds, Women in African Colonial Histories (Olatunji Ojo)
Fridus Steijlen ed., Memories of 'The East' (James C. Bradford)
Jeroen Touwen, Extremes in the Archipelago: Trade and Economic Development in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 1900-1942 (Tycho de Boer)
Irfan Habib ed., Confronting Colonialism: Resistance and Modernization under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan (Bruce P. Lenman)

Issue 2

Letter from the Editors

Interview
'I didn't get into history to avoid math or physics' An Interview with Patricia Seed

Conference Papers
Marné Strydom, Pride and Prejudice: The Role of Policy and Perception Creation in the Chinese Revolt of 1652 on Dutch Formosa
Ryuto Shimada, Dancing around the Bride: The Inter-Asian Competition for Japanese Copper, 1700-1760
Atsushi Ota, 'Traditional' versus 'Modern' Administrative Concepts: Dutch Intervention and its Results in Rural Banten, 1760-1790

Articles
Daniel S. Murphee, Transnational Racialisation on the Periphery: Europeans, Indians and the Construction of Identity in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1565
Jeremy David Cohen, Cultural and Commerical Intermediaries in an Extra-Legal System of Exchange: The Prácticos of the Venezuelan Littoral in the Eighteenth Century
Hong Lysa, Extraterritoriallity in Bangkok in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn, 1868-1910: The Cacophonies of Semi-Colonial Cosmopolitan

Reviews
Willem G.J. Kuiters, The British in Bengal 1756-1773; A Society in Transition Seen through the Biography of a Rebel: William Bolts (1739-1808) (Gerrit Knaap)
Timothy J. Shannon, Indian and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (Andrew K. Frank)
Claude Markovits, ed., A History of Modern India, 1480-1950 (Ian J. Kerr)
Kenneth J. Andrien, ed., The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America (Mark Meuwese)
Leo Akveld and Els M. Jacobs, De Kleurrijke Wereld van de VOC: Nationaal Jubileumboek VOC, 1602-2002 (Markus Vink)
Peter Karsten, Between Law and Custom: 'High' and 'Low' Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora - The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600-1900 (Elizabeth Mancke)
Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America (Ron Schultz)
Humphrey J. Fisher, Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa (Tycho de Boer)
D.E. Mungello, The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785 (Andrew R. Wilsom)
Brian Farrell and Sandy Hunter, eds, Sixty Years On: The Fall of Singapore Revisited (Robert E. McCabe)
Ann Marie Plane, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England (Steve Fountain)
Bart de Prins, Voor keizer en koning. Leonard du Bus de Gisignies 1780-1849, Commissaris-Generaal van Nederlands-Indië (Tom Verschaffel)
David B. Abernethy, The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires 1415-1980 (Adam Knobler)
Patrick Chabal, with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, and Elisa Silva Andrade, A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa (Douglas L. Wheeler)
Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (Dee E. Andrews)
Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Kumkum Chatterjee)

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Issue 3 and 4

Letter from the Guest Editors

Autobiographical Article
Hermann Giliomee, Rediscovering and Re-imagining the Afrikaners in a New South Africa: Autobiographical Notes on Writing an Uncommon Biography

Conference: 'An Apartheid of Souls'
Deborah James & Albert Schrauwers, An Apartheid of Souls: Dutch and Afrikaner Colonialism and its Aftermath in Indonesia and South Africa - An Introduction
Rita Smith Kipp, The Nationalist Credentials of Christian Indonesians and the Legacy of Colonial Racism
Hermann Giliomee, Afrikaners and the Making of a Radical Survival Plan
Albert Schrauwers, An Apartheid of Souls: Religious Rationalisation in the Netherlands and Indonesia
Joost Coté, 'A Conglomeration of [...] often Conflicting Ideas': Resolving the 'Native Question' in Java and the Outer Islands in the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1925
Robin Oakley, The Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk and the Nama Experience in Namaqualand, South Africa
Linda Waldman, Christian Souls and Griqua Boorlings: Religious and Political Identity in Griquatown
Jonathan Hyslop, The White Poor and the End of Apartheid: The Collapse of the Myth of Afrikaner Community
Deborah James & Geoffrey Nkadimeng, 'A Sentimental Attachment to the Neighbourhood': African Christians and Land Claims in South Africa
Ann Laura Stoler,Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Compassion in (Post) Colonial Studies

Reviews
Francesc Relaño, The Shaping of Africa: Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Gayle K. Brunelle)
T. Bentley Duncan, Uneasy Allies: Anglo-Portuguese Relations, 1642-1662 (Ernst van Veen)
Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Dane Kennedy)
François Valentyn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (Markus Vink)

Philip Wright ed., Lady Nugent's Journal of her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805, with a foreword by Verene A. Shepherd (Carla Gardina Pestana)
Bruce Lenman, England's Colonial Wars 1550-1688: Conflicts, Empire and National Identity (Roy Schreiber)
Lee Miller, Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony (Paul E. Hoffman)
Joyce E. Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (Edward G. Gray)
Dee E. Andrews, The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture (Melanie Perreault)
John Gascoigne, The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia (Saliha Belmessous)
K.N. Panikkae, Culture, Ideology, Hegemony: Intellectuals and Social Conciousness in Colonial India (Roger D. Long)
Judith A. Carney, Black rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Christopher Morris)
Ilan Stavans ed., Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition. Revised and annotated translation by Harold Augenbraum (Marcy Norton)
Daniel Joseph Walther, Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies and National Identity in Namibia (Sara Pugach)
David Curtis Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson eds, The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814 (Mark Meuwese)
Gisele Bousquet and Pierre Brocheux eds., Viêt-Nam Exposé: French Scholarship on Twentieth-Century Vietnamese Society (Charles Wheeler)
Alan Knight, Mexico: The Colonial Era (Jose R. Deutsua)
Robert W. Patch, Maya Revolt and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (Murdo J. MacLeod)
Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (James Homer Willaims)
Arend de Roever, De jacht op sandelhout; De VOC en de tweedeling van Timor in de zeventiende eeuw (Gerrit Knaap)
Paul Charney, Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru, 1532-1824 (Eugene Piñero)
Andrew Zimmerman, Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Heike Schmidt)

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