Americans in Sumatra
In: Springer eBook Collection
I / The Growing Interdependence of Sumatra and the United States 1873 to the Present -- Political Interests at the start of the Atjeh War -- Eastern Sumatra Imports to the United States -- Native Agricultural Products Imported From Sumatra's East Coast -- Modern Plantation Crops of the East Coast of Sumatra -- The Interdependence of the United States and Sumatra -- II / Black Gold — The History of American Enterprise in Indonesian Oil Development -- Americans Establish the Kerosene Trade -- Americans Develop the First Sumatran Oil -- Standard Tries to get Sumatran Production -- Dissolution of Standard and Founding of N.K.P.M -- The American Government steps into the Djambi Oil Dispute -- Prewar Development by American Oil Firms -- World War II -- The Americans Return after the War -- The Development of Central Sumatra -- Benefits to Indonesia -- Activities of Other American Firms -- Prospects for the Future -- III / Wealth from Trees — The History of American Enterprise in Indonesian Rubber -- Early Imports of Rubber from Sumatra -- Earliest American ventures in Rubber -- U.S. Rubber creates the World's Largest Plantation -- U.S. Rubber Pioneers in Scientific Production of Rubber -- Rubber during World War I -- Four Other American companies join U.S. Rubber in Sumatra -- The Flag Follows Trade: A Consulate opened at Medan -- Rubber Restriction -- The Great Depression -- World War II -- Postwar Re-Establishment -- Since the Korean War -- Prospects for the Future -- IV / American Contributions to Education, Religious and Secular -- The Martyrdom of Munson and Lyman, 1834 -- Reopening of American Mission Work in Sumatra -- The Seventh-Day Adventists Start the First Permanent Work -- Methodist Educational Work before World War II -- Non-Religious Educational Work by Americans -- Pre-War Work of Other Religious Groups -- World-War II and its aftermath -- Since Independence, 1949 -- Recent Non-Religious Education -- V / Scholar — Adventurers -- Thomas Horsfield -- American Navy Exploration Expeditions -- First American Exploration of the Interior -- The Great Animal Collectors -- Astronomers in the Antipodes -- Americans in Batakland -- Interwar Researches -- Postwar American Scholar-Visitors -- American Writings on Sumatra.