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 analyses the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency runners, and human traffickers who pierced such newly drawn borders with growing success. …
This book presents case studies of citizenship in diverse contexts and angles to reveal how citizens engage in public life. It aims to bring citizens and citizenship to the fore, instead of leaving them in the background of the democratisation studies and real democratisation processes. Democracy is far more than granting individual rights to citizens. Democracy, in this book, is a matter of ci…
Mengapa Edinburgh dapat melahirkan sekumpulan genius keratif, Florence melahirkan Leonardo da Vinci, dan Silicon Valley melahirkan Steve Jobs? Apakah karena iklimnya, toleransi masyarakatnya, sumber daya melimpah, atau hanya keberuntungan belaka? Lalu, apakah formula genius berlaku di tempat lain? Para genius tidak lahir di sembarang waktu dan tempat. Leonardo da Vinci tak akan melahirkan lu…