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This article takes a comparative approach to the Danish Sound and Malacca Straits as lieus de memoire or realsm of memory.
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The co-authored article takes a comparative approach.
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For my own section on the Malacca Straits, I argue that over the centuries this body of water has been understood in various ways, including as a strait that unites the societies along its shores as well as serving as a border between the British and Dutch colonial spheres of influence in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dr Peter Borschberg
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: Transcending borders: the sea as realm of memory, Asia Europe Journal, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10308-010-0271-x.
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