Handelaren en handlangers


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Deze economisch-antropologische studie gaat over de rol van handelaren en handelsallianties in het proces van economische verandering dat in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw op het eiland Madura op gang kwam na de invoering van het rechtstreekse koloniale bestuur. Het boek begint met een uiteenzetting over de sociaal-geografische omstandigheden en de historische achtergronden van het proces van economische veranderingen, waarbij het eiland geleidelijk werd betrokken in het Indonesische handelsverkeer. In het tweede deel wordt ingegaan op de economie van het dorp Prenduan, waar De Jonge een jaar veldwerk deed, is een van de belangrijkste handelsplaatsen aan de zuidkust van Madura. Sinds de ontsluiting van het eiland spelen handelaren uit het dorp een voortrekkers rol in de Madurese economie. Het laatste deel van het boek beschrijft de belangrijkste groep ondernemers uit het dorp, de tabakshandelaren. Tabak vormt het voornaamste produkt van Madura. Handelaren uit Prenduan beheersen de handel in het oostelijke deel van het eiland en monopoliseren de belangrijke handelscontacten met Java. Hun activiteiten zijn in belangrijke mate bevorderd door de verbreiding en verfijning van de islam. Dankzij deze godsdienst konden ze zich als groep emanciperen en hun positie legitimeren. De ontwikkelingen in de takbakswereld zijn in hoge mate representatief voor de veranderingen in andere handelssectoren. De auteur verschaft in dit boek nieuwe inzichten in de aard van economische ontwikkeling in perifere gebieden, rol van handelaren in dit proces en de relatie handel en islam.




The Making of a Periphery


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Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region, and its products found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more than ten million emigrants from the region working all over the world. How did a prosperous region become a peripheral one? In The Making of a Periphery, Ulbe Bosma draws on new archival sources from the colonial period to the present to demonstrate how high demographic growth and a long history of bonded labor relegated Southeast Asia to the margins of the global economy. Bosma finds that the region’s contact with colonial trading powers during the early nineteenth century led to improved health care and longer life spans as the Spanish and Dutch colonial governments began to vaccinate their subjects against smallpox. The resulting abundance of workers ushered in extensive migration toward emerging labor-intensive plantation and mining belts. European powers exploited existing patron-client labor systems with the intermediation of indigenous elites and non-European agents to develop extractive industries and plantation agriculture. Bosma shows that these trends shaped the postcolonial era as these migration networks expanded far beyond the region. A wide-ranging comparative study of colonial commodity production and labor regimes, The Making of a Periphery is of major significance to international economic history, colonial and postcolonial history, and Southeast Asian history.




Transforming the Indonesian Uplands


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Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state. It is an engaged study, which fills important analytical gaps and addresses real-world concerns, exploring the uplands as components of national and global systems of meaning, power, and production. It offers a significant re-assessment of concepts, processes, histories, relationships and discourses, many of which are not unique to either the uplands or Indonesia, making the book essential and compelling reading for both scholars and practitioners.




Information Sources on Islamic Banking and Economics


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Islamic banking and economics (IBE) is a fast-growing subject of vital interest in both East and West as Muslims change their attitudes towards investments and find ways to invest their funds according to the Islamic faith. Along with the rapid developments in Islamic banking there has been a concomitant increase in the quantity of relevant IBE mat




Globalising Migration History


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Globalizing Migration History is a major step forward in comparative global migration history. Looking at the period 1500-2000 it presents a new universal method to quantify and qualify cross-cultural migrations, which makes it possible to detect regional trends and explain differences in migration patterns across the globe in the last half millennium. The contributions in this volume, written by specialists on Russia, China, Japan, India, Indonesia and South East Asia, show that such a method offers a fruitful starting point for rigorous comparisons. Furthermore the volume is an explicit invitation to other (economic, cultural, social and political) historians to include migration more explicitly and systematically in their analyses, and thus reach a deeper understanding of the impact of cross-cultural migrations on social change. Contributors are: Sunil Amrith, Ulbe Bosma, Gijs Kessler, Jelle van Lottum, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen, Mireille Mazard, Adam McKeown, Atsushi Ota, Vijaya Ramaswamy,Osamu Saito, Jianfa Shen, Ryuto Shimada, Willard Sunderland, and Yuki Umeno.




Art, Trade, and Cultural Mediation in Asia, 1600–1950


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This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people’s everyday lives. The authors tell several stories: of the role played by a host of intermediaries – such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process; of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings; of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines; of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies; and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits of Southeast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images.




Accessions List, Southeast Asia


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Unveiling Indonesia


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Southeast Asia


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Contains over eight hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about topics related to the historical development and global influence of Southeast Asia, covering politics, war, religion, socioeconomics, ethnohistory, geography, and folklore.