What does AS stand for?

Limberger focuses specifically on the social and economic changes of Antwerp and its rural surroundings, with topics including the urban impact on the rural economy, demographic changes, urban demand and the agrarian system, agrarian production and productivity, landlords and the great landowners, and peasants and their access to land.

Land and Longhouse is divided up into three main parts that serve to flesh out these issues: (1) the ethnographic and historical background of the Iban generally, and the pre-colonial agrarian system of the Saribas specifically; (2) transformation of that system under Brooke rule, as the White Rajahs extended their influence over Iban political activities and livelihoods through land laws and the use of courts to settle land disputes; and (3) the rapid transformation after World War II under the transitional colonial government and post-independence Malaysia.

The agrarian system and the problems of regenerating agriculture are also dealt with.

It is for the most part a political history, describing the rise of the Roman nobility, the wars that led to expansion across the peninsula, crisis in the military and agrarian systems, and political reforms and civil wars.