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Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java : colonial relationships in trade and finance, 1800-1942 /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Claver, Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Colección:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 291.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Glossary
  • 1. Introduction
  • Research outline
  • Access to capital, information and security
  • The Indonesian case
  • Sources
  • Research method
  • 2. Prelude to rapid expansion (1800-1884)
  • The colonial state and the economy
  • The resilience of private enterprise
  • Private enterprise under the cultivation system
  • Tilting the balance : finance in transition
  • Wholesalers and retailers
  • 3. Crisis and adaptation (1884-1890s)
  • Economic policy and political expansion
  • The organization of trade
  • The onset of the crisis : sugar and coffee
  • The beginning of the crisis
  • The crisis experienced
  • The crisis prolonged : import and credit
  • 4. Redefining Dutch-Chinese commercial relations (1890s-1910)
  • An awkward alliance : the interdependence of Dutch and Chinese business
  • The economic position of the Chinese under scrutiny
  • A wave of failures : Surabaya in the late 1890s
  • The Chinese boycot of the Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam
  • 5. The road to expansion (1910-1930)
  • The late colonial state : consolidation and conflict
  • The colonial economy before 1914
  • The lure of sugar
  • DJ B and the outbreak of the First World War
  • The colonial economy after 1914
  • The Kwik Hoo Tong Handelmaatschappij : a prominent Chinese in sugar
  • 6. Economic crisis and commercial resilience (1930-1942 )
  • The economic experience of the 1930s
  • The incidence of failure : bankruptcy cases in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Commercial resilience : two examples of crisis management in the 1930s
  • 7. Conclusion
  • A bird's-eye view of colonial trade
  • Trade dynamics.