Lords of the land, lords of the sea; Conflict and adaptation in early colonial Timor, 1600-1800

Lords of the Land focuses on two centuries of contacts between indigenous polities on Timor and the early colonials. In contrast with most previous studies, the book treats Timor as a historical region in its own right, using a wide array of Dutch, Portuguese, and other original sources, which are compared with the comprehensive corpus of oral tradition recorded on the island.