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About the book
The Iranun and Balangingi raiders of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the world economy that called their raiding into being, and how a way of life became an ethnic name.
This history looks at the Sulu and Mindanao region, the "Sulu Zone", from the late 18th century. It shows how world trade, long-distance sea commerce, raiding and the flight of refugees shaped its peoples. It follows Iranun raiding from its beginnings to the organised slaving of the 19th century, and the rise of the Balangingi and other seafaring groups.
James Francis Warren, a historian of Southeast Asia at Murdoch University, wrote it as a companion to his earlier book The Sulu Zone (1981). He draws on archives and published works, and on period testimony, diaries, interviews and his own fieldwork in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia.
The book offers a way to understand how ethnic identity forms, and why it matters for political conflict in the region today. It was nominated for a national book award in the Philippines.
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