Table of Contents

Illustrations

Maps and genealogies

Spelling, weights and measures

Glossary

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Approaching 19th-century Sarawak

1 Power and prowess in northwest Borneo

2 Insurgency and the foundations of Brooke power

3 Integration and exclusion in the early Brooke state

4 The Iban challenge

5 Competition, resistance and ritual in patron-client systems

6 Chinese power and the failure of prowess

7 The Rejang basin

8 The succession to Sarawak

9 'Doing honour to the Rajah'

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Dr John Walker is a Lecturer in Politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australia. He is the author of numerous articles on the history of Sarawak and also Australia's strategic policy and planning.