The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941–1945
In: Asian studies review, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 349-351
ISSN: 1467-8403
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In: Asian studies review, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 349-351
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 11-24
ISSN: 2041-2827
Intense debates emerged in the Dutch East Indies during the course of the third decade of the twentieth century concerning the role of missionaries in the development of the Outer Islands of the Indonesian archipelago. Ostensibly concerning "native welfare", disagreement fundamentally reflected underlying fractures within the Dutch nation, projected through its "colonial mission" concerning the nature of modernity. While the main focus appeared to be a disagreement concerning the goals of mission and government agencies, it would be too simplistic to characterise the debate as one between adherents of a secular versus a religious world view. This paper considers the question of "missions and modernity" in the context of this debate about "native development" in the Dutch East Indies through the prism of the Poso mission in Central Sulawesi, headed by missionary Albert Kruyt, one of the foremost missionaries of his day.
In: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian affairs: RIMA, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 1-44
ISSN: 0034-6594, 0815-7251
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In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 27, Heft 3-4, S. 160-188
ISSN: 2041-2827
This paper examines Dutch colonial discourse as it was developing at the beginning of the twentieth century. I argue that colonial circumstances were changing at the beginning of the twentieth century in many aspects - economic, political, social - and that these changes required new policy and administrative responses. I take as examples of these changing colonial conditions and responses, two episodes in the history of 'the late colonial state', which I argue are both representative of and formative in shaping, colonial policy in the last decades of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia.
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 25, Heft 3-4, S. 112-142
ISSN: 2041-2827
In the recent debates gripping the Australian national psyche regarding the 'Stolen Children' (the often forcible removal of Aboriginal children of mixed European descent from their Aboriginal mothers practiced for most of the twentieth century under Australian Federal law) little credence is given to now outdated notion of 'half-caste' which inspired the original legislation. Today, self-identification, regardless of colour and heritage, determines Aboriginal ethnicity. But 'half-caste-ness' constituted a powerful concept in the process of nation formation in colonial Australia and in other colonial contexts.
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 87-107
ISSN: 2041-2827
The aim of this paper is to investigate the nature of Dutch colonial policy at the turn of the twentieth century in what was then the Netherlands East Indies.' Referred to in the historiography of this period as 'the ethical policy', it is usually characterized as a welfare or developmentalist government. More recent comparisons have drawn attention to similarities between twentieth-century colony policy and the New Order Indonesian policy with a focus on economic growth and the lack of individual 'development'. 'Ethical policy' is not usually a term applied to the politics of other imperialist powers, which begs the question that somehow Dutch colonialism was different. Recent comparative research by M. Kuitenbrouwer, A. Stoler and J. Breman has questioned this assumption.
In: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 295
"Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal factor. Modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. The various chapters deal with such innovations as the provision of medical treatments, fresh water and sanitation, the implementation of town planning and housing designs, and policies for coping with increased motorized traffic and industrialization. The contributors share a broad critique of the economic and political dimensions of colonialism, but remain alert to the agency of colonial subjects who respond, often critically, to a European modernity" --
In: Working papers 128
In: Research in international studies
In: Southeast Asia series no. 114
In: Monash papers on Southeast Asia 60
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 317-329
ISSN: 1363-030X
In: International Studies in Social History 9
Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were transformed by a fusion of new and old forces of production, as the international sugar economy incorporated production areas in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Sugar's global economic importance and its intimate relationship with colonialism offer an important context for probing the nature of colonial societies. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era