The Making of a Periphery
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-18852-4 (ISBN)
In The Making of a Periphery, Ulbe Bosma draws on new archival sources from the colonial period to the present to demonstrate how high demographic growth and a long history of bonded labor relegated Southeast Asia to the margins of the global economy. Bosma finds that the region’s contact with colonial trading powers during the early nineteenth century led to improved health care and longer life spans as the Spanish and Dutch colonial governments began to vaccinate their subjects against smallpox. The resulting abundance of workers ushered in extensive migration toward emerging labor-intensive plantation and mining belts. European powers exploited existing patron-client labor systems with the intermediation of indigenous elites and non-European agents to develop extractive industries and plantation agriculture. Bosma shows that these trends shaped the postcolonial era as these migration networks expanded far beyond the region. A wide-ranging comparative study of colonial commodity production and labor regimes, The Making of a Periphery is of major significance to international economic history, colonial and postcolonial history, and Southeast Asian history.
Ulbe Bosma is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History and professor of international comparative social history at the Free University of Amsterdam. His publications include Being “Dutch” in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500–1920 (2008) and The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia: Industrial Production, 1770–2010 (2013).
List of Tables, Maps, and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Smallpox Vaccination and Demographic Divergences in the Nineteenth Century
2. The External Arena: Local Slavery and International Trade
3. Saved from Smallpox but Starving in the Sugar Cane Fields: Java and the Northwestern Philippines
4. The Labor-Scarce Commodity Frontiers, 1870s–1942
5. The Periphery Revisited: Commodity Exports, Food, and Industry, 1870s–1942
6. Postcolonial Continuities in Plantations and Migrations
Conclusion
Appendix: Methodological Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.07.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Columbia Studies in International and Global History |
Zusatzinfo | 5 Maps |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-231-18852-8 / 0231188528 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-18852-4 / 9780231188524 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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