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Sumatran Sultanate and Colonial State : Jambi and the Rise of Dutch Imperialism, 1830–1907 / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501719387
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.81 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword to the English Edition -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Themes and Theories -- Chapter 2. Jambi and Batavia before 1830 -- Chapter 3. Contract and Sovereignty -- Chapter 4. International Interest in Jambi -- Chapter 5. Preemption in Practice: The Struggle for Power in 1858 -- Chapter 6. Quests for Knowledge and Political Consequences: The 1860s and 1870s -- Chapter 7. Ritual Dances (1882-1895) -- Chapter 8. Oil: 1890-1900 -- Chapter 9. State Formation and Guerrilla War (1901-1907) -- Conclusion: Jambian Isolation and Dutch Imperialism -- Epilogue: Continuing Lines and Changing Patterns (1907-1949) -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The first English translation of Professor Locher-Scholten's 1994 Dutch text, a study of the reaction to Dutch colonial expansion by the Sumatran sultanate of Jambi. The Dutch text has been called "an excellent teaching tool for work on the Netherlands imperial project " [Locher-Scholten's] extensive archive work, in both Holland and Indonesia, her explicit reference to secondary theoretical works, and her useful lists mean that her analysis is transparent and accessible."
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword to the English Edition -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Themes and Theories -- Chapter 2. Jambi and Batavia before 1830 -- Chapter 3. Contract and Sovereignty -- Chapter 4. International Interest in Jambi -- Chapter 5. Preemption in Practice: The Struggle for Power in 1858 -- Chapter 6. Quests for Knowledge and Political Consequences: The 1860s and 1870s -- Chapter 7. Ritual Dances (1882-1895) -- Chapter 8. Oil: 1890-1900 -- Chapter 9. State Formation and Guerrilla War (1901-1907) -- Conclusion: Jambian Isolation and Dutch Imperialism -- Epilogue: Continuing Lines and Changing Patterns (1907-1949) -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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The first English translation of Professor Locher-Scholten's 1994 Dutch text, a study of the reaction to Dutch colonial expansion by the Sumatran sultanate of Jambi. The Dutch text has been called "an excellent teaching tool for work on the Netherlands imperial project " [Locher-Scholten's] extensive archive work, in both Holland and Indonesia, her explicit reference to secondary theoretical works, and her useful lists mean that her analysis is transparent and accessible."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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