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332 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300153217
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 04 January 2011
Description
The "Hikayat Banjar," a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of ...
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332 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300153217
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 04 January 2011
Description
The "Hikayat Banjar," a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of ...