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"Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture. Reconsidering notions of the 'invisible' or 'apparitional' lesbian, Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational instability, and the scandals it generated, rendered it an influential force within modern politics, law, art and the literature of modernist writers like James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf. Medd's analysis draws on legal proceedings and parliamentary debates as well as crises within modern literary production - patronage relations, literary obscenity and cultural authority - to reveal how lesbian suggestion forced modern political, cultural and literary institutions to negotiate their own identities, ideals and limits. Medd's text will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in gender and women's studies, modernist literary studies and English literature."

"In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng's book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when opium was sent as a gift by vassal states and used as an aphrodisiac in court. Over time, the Chinese people from different classes and regions began to use it for recreational purposes, so beginning a complex culture of opium consumption. The book traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years, asking who introduced opium to China, how it spread across all sections of society, embraced by rich and poor alike as a culture and an institution. The book, which is accompanied by a fascinating collection of illustrations, will appeal to students and scholars of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and all those with an interest in China."

"Minahasa adalah salah satu Kabupaten Daerah Tingkat II di Sulawesi Utara. Kultur masyarakat Minahasa telah membentuk sistem kehidupan masyarakatnya. Kata Mina'esa yang akhirnya menjadi Minahasa yang berarti "tanah yang dipersatukan", adalah sebutan lain dari "Musyawarah Para Ukung" (Vergadering der Doopshoofden) atau "Dewan Wali Pakasaan" (Raad der Doopshoofden). Dewan ini merupakan "lembaga" tertinggi dalam masyarakat Minahasa yang bertahan hingga akhir abad ke-19.Dewan Wali Pakasaan dalam fungsinya, dapat menangani berbagai permasalahan yang muncul, utamanya seperti konflik dalam masyarakat Selain itu, lembaga ini berfungsi sebagai sarana untuk menampung aspirasi yang datangnya dari masyarakat serta yang terpenting lagi, lembaga ini dapat melawan apa yang disebut "musuh bersama" yaitu bajak laut Mindanao.Adat-istiadat/tradisi, selalu menjadi dasar bertindak lembaga ini, karena setiap musyawarah dan apa yang dihasilkan dalam musyawarah itu, selalu didasarkan atas prinsip kebersamaan, yaitu prinsip Mina'esa.Idealisme L Wenzel selaku Residen pertama di Keresidenan Manado sejak tahun 1824, yang mengedepankan adaptasi program pemerintahannya dengan tradisi Minahasa, tidak terwujud. Wenzel sebaliknya menerapkan sistem pemerintahannya itu dengan mengacu pada sistem hukum Barat, yang secara nyata bertentangan dengan kultur Minahasa.Kondisi yang diciptakan Wenzel tambat laun menjadi pemicu bagi masyarakat Minahasa, khususnya bagi mereka yang telah berpendidikan Barat, untuk menuntut kepada pemerintah Hindia Belanda agar memberikan otonomi seluas-luasnya bagi Minahasa. Alasannya, pertama, telah ada undang-undang desentralisasi (decentralisatieweb) 1903 tentang otonomisasi di Hindia Belanda; kedua, kuatnya "dorongan" tradisi Mina'esa bagi masyarakat Minahasa; ketiga, walaupun ada beberapa orang anak Minahasa yang duduk sebagai anggota Volksmad, akan tetapi kepentingan Minahasa tidak terakomodasi dalam lembaga itu. Tiga hal inilah yang telah menjadi faktor penentu, sehingga pada tahun 1919, lahirlah apa yang disebut Minahasa Raad (Dewan Minahasa), yang menggantikan fungsi dari Dewan Wali Pakasaan yang telah diselewengkan oleh J.Wenzel dan para penggantinya sepanjang pemerintahannya di Hindia, khususnya di Minahasa.

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From Mina'esa to Minahasa Raad (Minahasa Council) the end of Nineteenth Century to the Early of the Twentieth CenturyMinahasa is one the counties in North Sulawesi. The culture of Minahasan society has formed and built their systems and ways of lives. "Minahasa" another name for Vergadering der Doopshoofden (The Forum of the Llkungs) or Rued der Doopshoofden (The Council of Pakasaan). This council was the highest representative in Minahasan society which last until the end of the nineteenth century.

In its function, the council of Pakasaan could overcome kindsof problems such as conflicts which emerged from the people. Furthermore, this council was the place where the people could convey their voices and the most important thing it could fight against the pirates coming from Mindanao that was known as "the enemy of all the Minahasan people".

The customs and the traditions of the people were always the basic principle for the council in taking any decision for the sake of the people. Thus all the results taken this council always reflected their unity and togetherness. This basic principle known as the philosophy of Mina'esa.

Since 1824, J. Wenzel became the first resident in the residence of Manado. As the resident, Wenzel ran his government by applying the mixing of traditions in Minahasa with his own administration program, but unfortunately it did not work. On the other hand, Wenzel ran his government administration system by putting priority on the western law, which obviously contradicted to the culture of Minahasan people.

The condition created by Wenzel eventually became the major source for the Minahasan people especially for those who had received western education to sue their right for governing their own land, claiming the autonomy from the Dutch government. The Minahasan had three reasons for their claim; first, they had already got the law for decentralization (decentralisatieweb) in 1903 which was about the autonomy in Netherlands Indies; second the strong will to conservate the Mina'esa's tradition for the Monaha_san people; third the lack of ability of the Minahasan people who sat in the representative to fight for the sake of Minahasan people. These three reasons became the basic affect that in 1919 they gave birth to the founding of Minahasa Raad (Minahasan Council) which replaced the Pakasaan Council which had been misled by Wenzel and also those who took over his position during his government in Netherlands Indie especially in Minahasa."

"ABSTRAKHistorians accept the death of oral sources, but expect newspaper archives in state institutions to be available for ever. Yet the majority of Indonesian newspaper titles in the National Library are today endangered. These crumbling papers are often the only copy in the world. This article first reviews the role these archives have played in pathbreaking historical work, both Indonesian and foreign. Provincial newspapers record the chatter of a new, literate middle class that emerged in the middle of the tumultuous twentieth century. Indonesian historiography is transformed by the many surprises scholars experience when reading their lives there. When those sources turn to dust, historical research dies. This will affect not just specialized historians, but social scientists in many fields. The article then maps quantitatively the extent to which these papers are endangered. It finally urges the social science community as a whole to campaign to save them through comprehensive digitization."

"In The Feringhees, Elizabeth Hamilton, herself born in India, reveals through the medium of her husbands great-great-grandfather, Sir Robert Hamilton, and her own father, Sir William Barton, the Indian Civil and Political Services at their best. Both men served against a background of momentous-Sir Robert in the uprising of 1857-8 and Sir William in the first 30 years of the twentieth century, when the movement for self-government was gaining momentum. They served their apprenticeship as District Officers, learning to survey the land, to avoid confrontations, and, above all, to respect the people. Later, as Politicals, they experienced the pomp and pageantry in the princely states of Indore, Mysore, and also Hyderabad, where Sir William was helped by his earlier experiences in the remote areas of the North-West Frontier that had introduced an element of steel into his character, enabling him to put the regime of the autocratic, immensely rich, but miserly Nizam on a less corrupt footing. Each of the men was supported by a wife who, like him learned to love the country in spite of hardships and sadness, which included the loss of children. Throughout the two volumes, a rich panoply of people enters the story-viceroys and generals, dewans and elders, tribesmen and villagers, Brahmins and outcastes, rebels and extremists, maharajas and begums, including the women rulers of Bhopal and the legendary Rani of Jhansi."

"In The Feringhees, Elizabeth Hamilton, herself born in India, reveals through the medium of her husband is great-great-grandfather, Sir Robert Hamilton, and her own father, Sir William Barton, the Indian Civil and Political Services at their best. Both men served against a background of momentous-Sir Robert in the uprising of 1857-8 and Sir William in the first 30 years of the twentieth century, when the movement for self-government was gaining momentum. They served their apprenticeship as District Officers, learning to survey the land, to avoid confrontations, and, above all, to respect the people. Later, as Politicals, they experienced the pomp and pageantry in the princely states of Indore, Mysore, and also Hyderabad, where Sir William was helped by his earlier experiences in the remote areas of the North-West Frontier that had introduced an element of steel into his character, enabling him to put the regime of the autocratic, immensely rich, but miserly Nizam on a less corrupt footing. Each of the men was supported by a wife who, like him learned to love the country in spite of hardships and sadness, which included the loss of children. Throughout the two volumes, a rich panoply of people enters the story-viceroys and generals, dewans and elders, tribesmen and villagers, Brahmins and outcastes, rebels and extremists, maharajas and begums, including the women rulers of Bhopal and the legendary Rani of Jhansi."