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Article: Further notes on the historiography of British Borneo.
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- Borneo Research Bulletin
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Some thirty years ago I prepared "Some Notes on the Historiography of British Borneo," which were included in the Festschrift for D. C. E. Hall, Southeast Asian History and Historiography, edited by C. D. Cowan and O. W. Wolters (1976). Not all the comments I made would I now be prepared to endorse, but it seems better to avoid retraversing the ground I covered, since the descriptive part seems not inadequate. Space is better given to what has been done over the past thirty years rather than to recapitulation.
The changes during that period may be included under a number of headings. First, of course, more history has happened. That always shifts the focus on the ...