Merchant kings : corporate governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815-1870 /

In the nineteenth century, the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java were the sites of dramatically increased industrialization. Led by a group of "merchant kings" who exemplified gentlemanly capitalism, this ambitious trading project transformed the small, economically moribund Ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schrauwers, Albert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2021.
Temas:
1800-1899
Corporatization > Netherlands > History > 19th century.
Corporations, Dutch > Political aspects > Indonesia > Java > History > 19th century.
Colonial companies > Indonesia > Java > History > 19th century.
Privatisation partielle > Pays-Bas > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sociétés néerlandaises > Aspect politique > Indonésie > Java > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Compagnies de colonisation > Indonésie > Java > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Colonial companies.
Corporatization.
Indonesia > Java.
Netherlands.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Corporate Governmentality
  • Part I
  • State Formation in the Greater Netherlands
  • Chapter 1
  • Aristocratic Restoration in Nineteenth-Century "Greater Netherlands"
  • Part II
  • Corporate Governmentality in the Realm of the Merchant King
  • Chapter 2
  • Policing the Pauper in the Realm of the Merchant King
  • Chapter 3
  • The Cultivation System
  • Chapter 4
  • Manufacturing Commodity Chains: The NHM and Cotton
  • Chapter 5
  • "Sweetening the Pot": Rule by Experts in the Sugar Industry
  • Chapter 6
  • Weaving an Empire: G. & H. Salomonson and the "Social Question"
  • Part III
  • The Credit Mobilier and Corporate Assemblage
  • Chapter 7
  • Political Economy, the "Self-Regulating Market," and "Economic Governance"
  • Chapter 8
  • The Credit Mobilier: Constructing an Economic Sovereignty
  • Chapter 9
  • The Crédit Mobilier and the Railways
  • Conclusion: Assemblage, Corporatization, and the Government of the Economy
  • References
  • Index

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