Java under the Cultivation System
Author: R. van Niel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-08-22
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9004486887
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Some Notes on Java and Its Administration by the Dutch
Author: Henry Scott Boys
Publisher:
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis modestly-entitled work by a former member of the Bengal Civil Service is in fact more like a well-researched essay than a miscellaneous collection of notes. It pays considerable attention to Java's history, though its coverage is rather patchy by modern standards, and many names are mis-spelled. It has a few interesting insights on the situation at the time of the author's visit (1889), such as the prosperous appearance of the Javanese, especially the children, the domination of trade by women, and the absence of any sign of Islam. But its main interest is the author's favorable opinion of the economic management of Java by the Dutch, as compared with the British in India. He particularly commends the Dutch refusal to introduce individual property rights to land. He does predict however (correctly) that the growth of Java's population will lead to economic problems in the future. He is also unusual among British colonial administrators of the 19th century in suggesting that the Western way of doing things is not invariably the best one.
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
Author: Ulbe Bosma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-07
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1107435307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEuropean markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time. Although initial attempts by British planters in India failed, the Dutch colonial administration was far more successful in Java, where it introduced in 1830 a system of forced cultivation that tied local peasant production to industrial manufacturing. A century later, India adopted the Java model in combination with farmers' cooperatives rather than employing coercive measures. Cooperatives did not prevent industrial sugar production from exploiting small farmers and cane cutters, however, and Bosma finds that much of modern sugar production in Asia resembles the abuses of labor by the old plantation systems of the Caribbean.
The Politics of Colonial Exploitation
Author: Cornelis Fasseur
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1501719122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe development of the Cultivation System from the years 1840 to 1860 is the focus of this work by the Dutch scholar Cornelis Fasseur. The author presents a general overview of Dutch po y and decision-making, and considers how these policies influenced the evolution of the Cultivation System and how the system itself altered Dutch views of governance in Java.
The Cultivation System and "agricultural Involution"
Author: Robert Edward Elson
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccounting for Services
Author: Daan Marks
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9052603367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most intriguing question about Indonesia's economic development during the twentieth century is why the country's growth performance has been so erratic and displayed such a high degree of discontinuity. This is connected with the fundamental question about the nature of long-run economic development in Indonesia. So far the economic historiography of Indonesia has been less systematic than what the available source material would permit. Indonesia is exceptionally well endowed with rich statistical sources, which carry the potential of supporting a rigorous and systematic quantitative approach to vital questions concerning the economic growth performance in the long run. This book takes such an approach and presents new estimates for the long-run growth of the Indonesian service sector, and analyses the role of the various service sectors in economic development. Linking empirical and theoretical analysis in a creative fashion, Daan Marks provides a rich and original contribution to our understanding of the economic history of Indonesia. He shows that the service sector has played a crucial role in Indonesia's economic development. Or in other words, to fully understand Indonesia's economic development path sevices need to be accounted for.
Two Colonial Empires
Author: C.A. Bayly
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9400943660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKby C. A. Bayly and D. H. A. Kolff The papers published in this volume were originally presented at two meetings of the Cambridg~-Leiden group for the comparative study of colonial India and Indonesia he1d in June 1979 and September 1982. These meetings were jointly sponsored by the Centre for the History of European Expansion at Leiden and the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge. The Cambridge Centre had been restricted to the study of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma and Nepal but had recently incorporated Southeast Asia into its area of interest; the Leiden Centre, which had encouraged comparative study from the beginning, necessarily found itself concentrating attention on Indonesias as the most important region of the former Dutch colonial empire. The meetings were intended to be exploratory, as much to alert the participants to work being done in the respective countries and to their different types of academic discourse as to compare 'India' and 'Indonesia'. Nor were the meetings intended to be exclusive. Scholars from several British and Netherlands Universities were involved from the beginning. More recently a wider series of conferences has been inaugurated. This brings scholars in India and Indonesia into a project wich seeks to develop the comparisons between the * two colonial societies on a more systematic basis.
Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia
Author: S. Alatas
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997-10-29
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0230378544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fact that the Malaysian state has managed to maintain a relatively democratic regime, while an authoritarian regime came to power in Indonesia has never been the focus of historical and comparative analyses despite certain cultural, social, and historical affinities between these two countries. This book takes a look at contrasting class structures and alliances, elite cohesion, state strength, as well as differences in political challenges to the state in order to understand two different paths to post-colonial state formation.
India and Indonesia
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Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789004082809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author: A. Booth
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998-03-04
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0333994965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndonesia is now the fourth largest country in the world, but many aspects of its economic history remain poorly understood. This book is the first comprehensive survey of Indonesian economic history in the 19th and 20th centuries, examining both the Dutch colonial era, and the post-independence period. Extensive use is made of recent work by Dutch, Indonesian and Australian scholars to develop a number of key themes relating to economic growth and structural transformation of the Indonesian economy from the early 19th century to the present.
