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Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000
An 'Indonesian economy' first took shape in the latter part of the nineteenth century, consisting of a dominant export industry supported by a rural agrarian sphere. The agricultural sector provided food and labour to the export sector, which was firmly embedded in the world economy. This economic pattern survived several shifts of the leading export industry and persisted even after Indonesia became independent in the mid-20th century. Hiroyoshi Kano uses international trade statistics to analyze three key elements in the Indonesian economy: the balance of international payments and trade, the transformation undergone by leading export industries, and the way in which the agricultural sector supplied land, labour and food. Dividing the 150-year time span covered by the book into four periods based on the prevailing major export industries, he identifies key actors and analyzes long-term changes in agricultural production and rural society, and how they shaped the national economy
The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree
Previous ed.: Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1983.
Asia Rising
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Sugar, Steam and Steel
"Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the 'Oriental Cuba' during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java - the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands Indies - drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equaled or, more often, surpassed it in terms of both output and know-how. Along with its larger and altogether more famous Caribbean counterpart, Java's industry came to occupy a position at the apex of the trade in what had become by this date a key global commodity. Along w...
Petaka Gunung Tampomas Kasus Lokal Cermin Global: Sedia Payung Sebelum Hujan
Kalau di wilayah bumi bagian utara yang kehidupannya dikendalikan oleh iklim temperate, bulan Mei merupakan bulan yang dinanti-nanti. Bulan ini masuk di dalam musim semi atau spring. Pada musim semi inilah kehidupan baru dimulai setelah 3 atau 4 bulan situasi kehidupan manusia di sana berada dalam cekaman sangat dinginnya musim winter. Tak terbayangkan bagaimana manusia bisa bertahan hidup dengan temperatur minus. Bahkan, minusnya itu bisa mencapai minus puluhan derajat Celcius. “Brrrrr…dinginnya sampai ke tulang sumsum,” aku sering sampai harus mengibaratkan dinginnya itu sampai ke tulang sumsum, saking dinginnya. “Akh….kalau dibandingkan dengan dinginnya Puncak di Bogor atau puncaknya Gunung Tampomas (Gn. Tampomas), dinginnya di Puncak atau di puncak Gn. Tampomas tak ada artinya,” aku sering mengenang betapa dinginnya di East Lansing, Michigan, ketika aku diberi kesempatan untuk menggali ilmu dan mengalami hidup di sana. Tapi aku sangat menikmati dinginnya musim winter itu. Bahkan menjadi cita-cita ingin pernah hidup cukup lama di negara yang memiliki 4 musim. Kemudian pada saat ada kesempatan aku dengan sengaja memilih Michigan State University (MSU)
The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s
This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments in Britain and Japan. Recently several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective on Asian history, arguing that economic growth was fuelled by the phenomenon of intra-Asian trade which began to grow rapidly around the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. On the other side, British imperial historians, P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins, have presented their own interpretation of 'gentlemanly capitalism', in which they emphasize the leading role of the service sector rather than that of British industry in assessing the nature of the Briti...
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time.
