The Political Economy of Java's Northeast Coast, C. 1740-1800

Elite Synergy
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15090-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 334 Seiten, Gewicht: 793 g

Reihe: TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction

This book is a study of the political economy of Java's Northeast Coast from 1743, when the VOC emerged as its ruler, until the end of the eighteenth century. The focus is on the various power-holders - namely coastal Javanese regents, Mataram rulers, Chinese merchants and Company authorities - and how they accommodated the changes brought about with the power shift, what their primary resources were and how they tried to maximize their advantages in the new politico-economic setting. This study also shows how the Company, despite being the ruler, had to compromise with these power-holders and satisfy their needs to optimize its own gains.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kwee, Hui Kian

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Über Autor(innen)

Kwee Hui Kian, obtained her MA in History at the National University of Singapore in 2001, and received her doctorate in History at Leiden University in 2005. Her main fields of interests are the construction of Chinese identity in Singapore and the political economy of early modern Java.