ISBN:
9789004263239
,
9004263233
,
9789004256576
,
9004256571
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 442 pages)
,
illustrations (some color), maps
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde volume 291
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Claver, Alexander Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java
DDC:
330.9598/2022
Keywords:
Dutch History
;
Chinese History
;
Merchants History
;
International economic relations
;
Merchants
;
Netherlandish colonies
;
Kolonie
;
Welthandel
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Economics ; General
;
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Reference
;
Asia
;
China
;
Indonesia ; Java
;
Netherlands
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
;
Chinese
;
Commerce
;
Asien
;
China
;
Java
;
Niederlande
;
Dutch
;
Economic history
;
History
;
Netherlands Commerce
;
History
;
China Commerce
;
History
;
Netherlands Colonies
;
Economic conditions
;
Netherlands Foreign economic relations
;
China Foreign economic relations
;
Java (Indonesia) Commerce 20th century
;
History
;
Java (Indonesia) Commerce 19th century
;
History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-429) and index
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