United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

David Adamson

Robert M. Reynolds

John H. Walker

I. Irving Pinkel

Harold Mirels

Thaine W. Reynolds

Clarence L. Gills

G. Chester Furlong

Henry A. Cole

J. Howard Childs

Robert T. Jones

Edmund G. Rosenberg

James G. McHugh

Jesse L. Mitchell

Robert I. Sammonds

W. E. Bond

William B. Boatright

Charles C. Graves

M. A. Kissel

Determination of Longitudinal Stability and Control Characteristics from Free-flight Model Tests with Results at Transonic Speeds for Three Airplane Configurations

Archaeologists have long associated the development of agriculture with the rise of the state. But the archaeology of the Amazon Basin, revealing traces of agriculture but lacking evidence of statehood, confounds their assumptions. John H. Walker’s innovative study of the Bolivian Amazon addresses this contradiction by examining the agricultural landscape and analyzing the earthworks from an archaeological perspective. The archaeological data is presented in ascending scale throughout the book. Scholars across archaeology and environmental anthropology will find the methodology and theoretical arguments essential for further study.

Landscape Archaeology in the Llanos de Mojos

Island, River, and Field

Glenn Banks

Minako Sakai

The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia is a thought-provoking examination of local politics and the dynamics of power at Indonesia's geographic and social margins. After the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the introduction of a policy of decentralization in 2001, local stakeholders secured and consolidated decision-making power, and set about negotiating new relations with Jakarta. The volume deals with power struggles and local-national tensions, looking among other things at resource control, the historical roots of regional identity politics, and issues relating to Chinese-Indonesians. The authors develop information in ways that transcend the post-colonial territorial boundaries of Indonesia in the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, and use case studies to show how the changes described have galvanized Indonesian politics at the cultural and geographical peripheries.

Social and Geographical Perspectives

The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia

John Henry Walker

The state of Sarawak was founded in the 19th century by a coalition led by James Brooke on the northwest coast of Borneo. Walker (political science, U. of New South Wales, Australia) analyzes the networks of political and ritual power that led to the development of the establishment of Sarawak and concludes that the Brooke coalition should be seen as more reflective of political realities in Borneo than as simply an extension of British Colonialism. Brooke's role as "Raj" was, in key ways, constructed by local people to reflect their own objectives and priorities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak

Power and Prowess

John H. Walker

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