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I originally wanted to write something on the Qing but that turned out to be a bit too ambitious, so I've been looking into Indonesian history in the Early Modern era. And it's apparent that there's more than enough material for a TL on North Maluku[1] from a perspective that looks at the archipelago as a civilization in itself (the view of the Malukans themselves), not just as a source of spices (i.e. the European perspective reflected by the term "Spice Islands").

But would anyone on the site be particularly interested? Maluku - as the borderland between two civilizations very foreign to the West, the Malay-Islamic civilization and the Austronesian Oceanian civilization - is presumably an extremely obscure topic to most people here, so I understand it's probably of limited interest. But feel free to prove me wrong!

[1] Basically Halmahera and its surrounding islands, or in political terms the two realms of Tidore and Ternate.

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(map taken from Leonard Andaya's The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Era, page 48)
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