Eric Tagliacozzo: 2 books
The Longest Journey
Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five...
Secret Trades, Porous Borders
Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency...