Australian goldminers were among the first white men to have sustained contact with Papua New Guineans. Some Papua New Guineans welcomed them, worked for them, traded with them and learnt their skills and soon were mining on their own account. Others met them with hostility, either by direct confrontation or by stealthy ambush. Many of the indigenous people and some miners were killed. The min…
Mongolia’s mining sector, along with its environmental and social costs, have been the subject of prolonged and heated debate. This debate has often cast the country as either a victim of the ‘resource curse’ or guilty of ‘resource nationalism’. In The State, Popular Mobilisation and Gold Mining in Mongolia, Dulam Bumochir aims to avoid the pitfalls of this debate by adopting an alter…
Cergam di tangan Anda ini bukanlah sembarang cergam karena di dalamnya terkandung cerita tentang sejarah lokal kehidupan bangsa Indonesia sebagai petani cengkih. Adalah Ayu, sang tokoh utama, yang merupakan tokoh pengantar dari cerita dalam buku ini. Sembari berlibur ke rumah kakek dan neneknya di Boyolali, Ayu belajar untuk mengetahui fisik tanaman cengkih, manfaat, khasiat serta sejarah cengk…