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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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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.