Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development (eBook, ePUB)

The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies Compared
Redaktion: Frankema, Ewout; Buelens, Frans

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the comparative legacy of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a wide range of social, political, economic and institutional perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136759475
• Artikelnr.: 38273168

Autorenporträt

Ewout Frankema is Professor and Chair of Rural and Environmental History at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Frans Buelens is a researcher at the Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. Extractive Institutions in the Congo: Checks and
Balances in the Longue Durée 2. Colonial Extraction in the Indonesian
Archipelago: A Long Historical View 3. Varieties of Exploitation in
Colonial Settings: Dutch and Belgian Policies in Indonesia and the Congo 4.
The land tenure system in the Congo, 1885-1960: actors, motivations and
consequences 5. In the shadow of opium: Tax farming and the political
economy of colonial extraction in Java, 1807-1911 6. Fiscal Policy in the
Belgian Congo in Comparative Perspective 7. Colonial Education and
Postcolonial Governance in the Congo and Indonesia 8. (Un)freedom, Colonial
Labor Relations in Belgian Congo and the Netherland Indies Compared 9.
Rubber cultivation in Indonesia and the Congo from the 1910s to the 1950s:
divergent paths 10. Manufacturing and foreign investment in colonial
Indonesia 11. The Industrialization of the Belgian Congo 12. Mobutu,
Suharto and the Challenges of Nation-Building and Economic Development
(1965-97) Conclusion