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- Written by: Stefan Amirell
Publications
Academic publications
2025
Amirell, Stefan. ”Can I have your word? Foreign terms in seventeenth-century treaties of the Dutch East India Company”, in Translation in Early Modern Diplomacy, ed. Vladislav Rjéoutski, Guido Braun, Indravati Félicité and Sophie Holm (New York: Routledge 2025), pp. 117-135. DOI:10.4324/9781003386551-7
Preedee Hongsaton, “A Thai Missionary for the Dhamma in Sweden: Ten Years of a Monk in Snowyland,” in Buddhism in the Nordic Countries, ed. Jørn Borup, Minna Härkönen, Knut A. Jacobsen, and Kristoffer Plank (London: Routledge, 2025), pp. 80–100. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003529767-4
Hägerdal, Hans. “Dutch Colonialism and Portuguese Land Legacies in Flores,” in Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World, ed. Susanna Barnes and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2025), pp. 107–126.
https://ucp.manifoldapp.org/projects/colonial-land-legacies-in-the-portuguese-speaking-world/resource/chapter-5-dutch-colonialism-and-portuguese-land-legacies-in-flores.
Hägerdal, Hans. “Sources for Slaving in Eastern Indonesia: Mapping Regional Power Structures and Inter-regional Connectivities,” Journal of Global Slavery (2025) Vol 10: No. 2–3pp. 245–271. DOI:10.1163/2405836X-01002013.
Hägerdal, Hans. "Slavery in the Shadow of the Plantations: Colonial and Indigenous Slaving in Early-modern Maluku", in Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia, ed. Daniel Domingues da Silva, Hans Hägerdal, Angelina Kalashnikova and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2025), pp. 109-128. Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia
Tremml-Werner B. Negotiating Imperialism: Murakami Naojirō’s Archival Diplomacy. (Cambridge University Press; 2025.) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009640817
2024
Amirell, Stefan & Manse, Maarten. "Treaty-Making and Translation: European and Asian Versions and Their Paper Trails." Diplomatica (2024) Vol. 6: No 2. pp. 311–339. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-bja10126
Diamantis, Dimitris. Treaty of Yandaboo: The Cultural Perspectives, Communicational Problems and Agents on Negotions. MA thesis in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linneaus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences (2024), 65 p. https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-133180.
Hägerdal, Hans. "Diplomacy in the Villages: VOC Agreements and Disagreements with Stateless Societies in Southeastern Maluku in the Seventheenth and Eighteent Centuries." In: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-, en volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia. (2024) Vol 180: No 4. pp. 319-350. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-bja10062
Hägerdal, Hans. "Enlightenment and Genocide: Johannes Andreas Paravicini's Mission on Timor in 1756." Diplomatica, (2024). Vol. 6: No. 2. pp. 258-283. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-bja10128
Hägerdal, Hans. "Negotiating With the Bogey Man: Perceptions of European-Southeast Asian Relations in Lore Tradition." HumaNetten, (2024). Vol. 52. pp. 195-217. https://doi.org/10.15626/hn.20245214
Hägerdal, Hans. "Slaving, Colonial Diplomacy, and Resource Extraction in Seventeenth-Century Maritime Asia." Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, (2024). Vol. 8: No. 1. pp. 26-49. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/933176
Tremml-Werner, Birgit, Poggio, Eleonora & Lopez, Ariel. "Revisiting the Treaty between Spain and Sulu of 1836/37" Diplomatica, (2024). Vol. 6: No 2. pp. 284–310. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-bja10127
Tremml-Werner, Birgit. "Koloniale Verträge in Südostasien im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert" in Mark Häberlein und Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz, eds., Die Sprachen der Frühen Neuzeit. Köln: Böhlau. (2024), pp.123-136.
2023
Amirell, Stefan. "Tools of imperialism or sources of international law? Treaties and diplomatic relations in early modern and colonial Southeast Asia." History Compass, (2023). DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12793.
Amirell, Stefan. "International Treaties: The Foundations of Colonial Rule in Southeast Asia." IIAS Newsletter, (Summer 2023): Vol 96. No.18. https://www.iias.asia/sites/iias/files/nwl_article/2023-06/IIAS_NL95_18.pdf
Hägerdal, Hans. "Exemplary centre and "terra incognita"; Excursions, diplomacy, and appropriation of colonial knowledge in Belu, Timor." Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (2023) Vol. 24: No. 3. https://doi.org/10.17510/wacana.v24i3.1661
Tremml-Werner, Birgit. "The Elephant in the Archive: Knowledge Construction and Late Eighteenth-Century Global Diplomacy." Itinerario (2023), pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115323000165
2022
Amirell, Stefan. ”New Diplomatic History and the Study of the Global Nineteenth Century." Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. (2022) Vol 1: No 1. pp. 27–3. https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2022.6.
Manse, Maarten. "Two Sides of the Same Coin: Direct Taxation and Negotiated Governance in Colonial Indonesia." Journal of Social History (2022) Vol 56: No 2. pp. 411–438. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac050.
Ottosson, Simon. "Den bortglömda förhandlaren: Sultanen av Sulus agens och handlingsutrymme under amerikansk kolonisering 1899–1904." [The forgotten negotiator: The agency and room to manoeuvre of the Sultan of Sulu during American colonisation 1899–1904.] Historisk studenttidskrift (2022) Vol. 3: No 1. pp. 142–52. https://journals.lub.lu.se/hst/article/view/23170.
2021
Hellman, Lisa & Tremml-Werner, Birgit. "Translation in Action: Global Intellectual History and Early Modern Diplomacy." Journal of the History of Ideas (2021) Vol 82: No. 3. pp. 453–67. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2021.0022.

