Download or read book Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java written by Alexander Claver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander Claver shows the challenges of a demanding business environment by highlighting trade and finance mechanisms, and the relationships between the participants involved.
Download or read book Chinese Economic Activity in Netherlands India written by M. R. Fernando and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1992 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exceptional commercial success of many Southeast Asians of Chinese origin has generated much contemporary debate about the cultural or social basis of that success. This book shows that those questions have long roots in Indonesia. Dutch colonial officials in the nineteenth century expressed alarm over the rural economy. In the twentieth century more detached assessments sought to describe and explain Chinese business methods and the crucial networks they established through the Archipelago. An indispensable volume which appeared under the name of J.L Vleming used the resources of the Duth colonial taxation service to explain the nature of Chinese commercial and credit systems. This volume contains a selection of the most important writing in Dutch (by prominent lawyer Phao Liong Gie as well as by Dutch officials) that has been translated for the first time. These extracts cover the period from 1850 to 1936, though half the volume is taken from the 1926 book edited by Vleming. Basic demographic data and the revenues drawn from Chinese-held farms are presented in a statistical supplement.
Download or read book Growing Pains written by Mona Lohanda and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Policy and Administration of the Dutch in Java written by Clive Day and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Relations of the Netherlands Indies with Other Far Eastern Countries written by E. D. van Walree and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Distributive Intermediate Trade of the Chinese in Java written by Twan Djie Liem and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridgement and translation of De distribveerende tusschenhandel der Chineezen op Java.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Business and Economics in Asia written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 10422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set examines a vast range of topics covering all experiences of business and economics from across Asia. Dealing with early banking systems in China; the industrialisation of Korea and Taiwan; the evolution of Japanese business practices; economic development; protectionist policies; industrial investment; trade; tourism; and a host of other topics, the books collected here form a vital reference resource across a wide subject area.
Download or read book Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya written by John A. Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sugar Steam and Steel written by G. Roger Knight and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the 'Oriental Cuba' during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java - the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands Indies - drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equaled or, more often, surpassed it in terms of both output and know-how. Along with its larger and altogether more famous Caribbean counterpart, Java's industry came to occupy a position at the apex of the trade in what had become by this date a key global commodity. Along with the beet sugar producers of (post-1870) Imperial Germany, Cuba and Java accounted for a little over one-third of the world's recorded output of the industrially manufactured kind of sugar usually referred to as 'centrifugal'. While Cuba held the position of the world's largest supplier of cane sugar to international commodity markets, 'Dutch' Java emerged from almost nowhere to take second place. The island had begun the nineteenth century as one of a number of centres - in fact, a rather minor one - of pre-industrial sugar production located in tropical and sub-tropical Asia from the Indian sub-continent through to the southernmost islands of Japan. It ended the century not only as by far the largest of Asia's producer-exporters of sugar but also - critically - as the sole example of the sustained and successful large-scale industrialisation of sugar manufacture anywhere in 'the East'. Sugar, Steam and Steel sets out to explain how and why this happened - and what its implications were for the long-term trajectory of the Java sugar industry in the international sugar economy."--Cover description.
Download or read book The Komedi Bioscoop written by Dafna Ruppin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study of early cinema in the Netherlands Indies explores the influences of new media technology on colonial society. The Komedi Bioscoop traces the emergence of a local culture of movie-going in the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) from 1896 until 1914. It outlines the introduction of the new technology by independent touring exhibitors, the constitution of a market for moving picture shows, the embedding of moving picture exhibitions within the local popular entertainment scene, and the Dutch colonial authorities’ efforts to control film consumption and distribution. Dafna Ruppin focuses on the cinema as a social institution in which technology, race, and colonialism converged. In her illuminating study, moving picture venues in the Indies—ranging from canvas or bamboo tents to cinema palaces of brick and stone—are perceived as liminal spaces in which daily interactions across boundaries could occur within colonial Indonesia’s multi-ethnic and increasingly polarized colonial society.
Download or read book Re Envisioning Global Development written by Sandra Halperin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth, and that in recent years its organisation has become increasingly trans-local or global. However, Halperin shows that nationally organised economic growth has rarely been the case – it has only recently come to characterise a few countries and for only a few decades. This innovative text elaborates an alternative ontology and way of thinking about global development during the last two centuries – one linked, not to nations and regions, but to a set of essentially trans-national relations and connections. It argues that capitalist development has, everywhere and from the start, involved—not whole nations or societies–but only sectors or geographical areas within states. By bringing this aspect of historically ‘normal’ capitalist development into clearer focus, the book clarifies the specific conditions and circumstances that enabled European economies to pursue a more broad-based development following World War II, and what prevented a similar outcome in the contemporary ‘third world’. It also clarifies the nature, spatial extent, and circumstances of current globalising trends. Wide-ranging and provocative, this book is required reading for advanced level students and scholars in development studies, development economics and political science.
Download or read book In Asian Waters written by Eric Tagliacozzo and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia have shaped the history of the largest continent for the past half millennium, leaving an indelible mark on the modern world in the process. Paying special attention to migration, trade, the environment, and cities, In Asian Waters examines the long history of contact between China and East Africa, the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the Bay of Bengal, and the intertwined histories of Islam and Christianity in the Philippines. The book illustrates how India became central to the spice trade, how the Indian Ocean became a “British lake” between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and how lighthouses and sea mapping played important roles in imperialism. The volume ends by asking what may happen if China comes to rule the waves of Asia, as Britain once did. A novel account showing how Asian history can be seen as a whole when seen from the water, In Asian Waters presents a voyage into a past that is still alive in the present.
Download or read book Chinese Migrations with Special Reference to Labor Conditions written by Ta Chen and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dutch in the Far East written by Albert Hyma and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents: I. The secret of the Dutch commercial policy. II. The beginnings of Dutch sea power in the Far East. III. The voyage of Henry Hudson and the founding of New Netherland. IV. The Anglo-Dutch struggle for the freedom of the seas. V. The occupation of the Malay Archipelago. VI. The conquest of Formosa and the European trade with Japan. VII. Decline, recovery and further expansion. VIII. The United States and the Dutch East Indies. Bibliographical annotations. Index.
Download or read book Modern Global Trade and the Asian Regional Economy written by Tomoko Shiroyama and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy. The “regional trade zone of modern Asia” was debated in the 1980s. Since then, Japanese historians of the socioeconomic history of Asia have explored how the traditional trade relations that had developed over the centuries in Asia responded to the so-called Western impacts in the mid-nineteenth century, including the opening of ports and tariff reduction under free trade regimes and the advance in transportation technology. Against this academic background, the four chapters in this volume examine how overseas Chinese, some of the key actors in regional and local trade, dealt with their Western counterparts, and how Asian commodities penetrated other parts of the world through the newly created web of global commerce. The book reviews discuss theoretical issues to explore various connections among and comparisons of the economies in the region. This volume provides readers with critical insights into the Asian region in the past and present by investigating the long-term trajectory of its linkages to the global economy.
Download or read book Special Agents Series written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
