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    A world of water : rain, rivers and seas in Southeast Asian histories (2007)
    Leiden : KITLV Press | Leiden : Brill
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    gbv_1678183113
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 368 p) , ill., maps
    ISBN: 9789004254015 , 9004254013 , 906718294X , 9789067182942
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 240
    Content: "Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries, contains thirteen essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme. As it was exposed to the sea, the region was more accessible to outside political, economic and cultural influences than many landlocked areas. Easy access through sea routes also stimulated trade from an early age. However, the same easy access made Southeast Asia vulnerable to political control by strong outsiders. The sea is, moreover, a source of food, but also of many hazards. At the same time, Southeast Asian societies and cultures are confronted with and permeated by 'water from heaven' in the form of rain, flash floods, irrigation water, water in rivers, brooks and swaps, water-driven power plants, and pumped or piped water, in addition to water as a carrier of sewage and pollution. Finally, the volume deals with the role of water in classification systems, beliefs, myths, illness and healing"--Publisher's description
    Content: Preface,In a state of flux : water as a deadly and a life-giving force in Southeast Asia /Geography as destiny? : the role of water in Southeast Asian history /Of gods and monsters : indigenous sea cosmologies, promiscuous geographies and the depths of local sovereignty /Toothy tale : a short history of shark fisheries and trade in shark products in twentieth-century Indonesia /Tale of two centuries : the globalization of maritime raiding and piracy in Southeast Asia at the end of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries /Storms of history : water, hazard and society in the Philippines, 1565-1930 /Communal irrigation : a comparative perspective /Geographical explanations for the distribution of irrigation institutions : cases from Southeast Asia /Water and rice in early Java and Bali /Contestation over a life-giving force : water rights and conflicts, with special reference to Indonesia /Role of waterborne diseases in Malaysia /Privatizing water : the Jakarta concession and the limits of contract /Politics of environmental and water pollution in East Java /Peter Boombaard --Heather Sutherland --Sandra Pannell --Manon Osseweijer --James F. Warren --Greg Bankoff --Robert C. Hunt --Willem Wolters --Jan Wisseman Christie --Franz von Benda-Beckmann --Foong Kin --Okke Braadbaart --Anton Lucas and Arief W. Djati.
    Note: Available to subscribing member institutions only , Includes bibliographical references and index , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 906718294X
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe World of water Leiden : KITLV Press, 2007
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    DOI: 10.1163/9789004254015
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    Linking destinies : trade, towns and kin in Asian history (2008)
    Leiden : KITLV Press
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    gbv_1726872602
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 277 p) , ill., 1 map
    ISBN: 9789067183208 , 9789004253995 , 9789067183208 , 9067183202
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 256
    Content: Preliminary Material /Peter Boomgaard , Dick Kooiman and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- Connecting people, places and commodities /Peter Boomgaard and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- Early globalization: Cowries as currency, 600 BCE-1900 /Peter Boomgaard -- The Asianization of indigo: Rapid change in a global trade around 1800 /Willem van Schendel -- Trading goods, prestige and power: A revisionist history of Lowlander-Highlander relations in Vietnam /Oscar Salemink -- Contextualizing trade in East Nusa Tenggara, 1600-1800 /I Gde Parimartha -- Maritime trade in small-town Java around 1775: The cases of Tegal and Pekalongan /Gerrit Knaap -- Struggling for justice: Chinese commerce and Dutch law in the Netherlands Indies, 1800-1942 /Alexander Claver -- Cities and the slave trade in early-modern Southeast Asia /Remco Raben -- Keroncong, concours and crooners: Home grown entertainment in early twentieth-century Batavia /Peter Keppy -- Kampong improvement in colonial Indonesia: A contest on paper and in the field /Freek Colombijn -- Family is where one starts from: Exploring family history in the historiography of colonial Indonesia /Elsbeth Locher-Scholten -- Cultural strategies, economic dominance: The lineage of Tan Bing in nineteenth-century Semarang, Java /Kwee Hui Kian -- Traditional lineages in transnational spaces /Song Ping -- Family divided, property disputed: The collapse of a wealthy Nanyang Chinese patriarch /Wu Xiao An -- About the authors /Peter Boomgaard , Dick Kooiman and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- Short biography of Heather Sutherland /Dick Kooiman -- Bibliography of Heather Sutherland /Inge Tromp.
    Content: Trade flows, cities and kinship relations can all be seen as elements of complex networks. In this collection of essays, all of which deal with Asia, we argue that there are good reasons to envisage them as various dimensions of the same networks. Nevertheless, it is fairly rare to find trade, cities and kinship relations as intimately linked as we have portrayed them in this volume, because they are usually classified within different sub-disciplines of history, whose practitioners are all too often not inclined to talk to people outside their own field. The Australian born historian Heather Sutherland, who recently retired from the VU university in Amsterdam, is an exception in this respect because most of her work gravitates towards an approach which aims to integrate this trinity of topics. This collection of essays, written by a number of her students and close colleagues, has taken its cue from her approach. It is not the case that all the contributions deal with all three topics but they as a collective demonstrate how flows of trade, cities—both as urban centres and nodes in wider networks—and kinship relations hang together, and how the study of one topic opens new vistas on the other two, revealing causal links that otherwise would have remained hidden. Thus, the essays in this collective volume support the idea that trade, towns and kin—although often dealt with quite separately—can be viewed as various aspects of the same networks, connecting people, places and commodities
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789067183208
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Linking Destinies: Trade, Towns and Kin in Asian History Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2008 ISBN 9789067183208
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1163/9789004253995
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    Weathering the Storm : The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression (2000)
    Pasir Panjang, Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
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    UID:
    gbv_883287870
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 332 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    ISBN: 9789812305077
    Content: The principal cause of the 1930s depression in Southeast Asia lay outside the region - through a sharp contraction in demand for the region's major commodity exports. But it had important internal causes too: an oversupply of primary commodities and an increasing scarcity of new agricultural land leading to higher rents and lower wages, rising indebtedness and increasing landlessness. This work thoroughly analyses the pre-war depression. It also looks at the changes in the basic structures of the economies of Southeast Asia that were of long-term importance, such as the role of the state in the economy. The authors also draw similarities and contrasts between the 1930s depression and the 1990s Asian crisis
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789812300805
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789812300799
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    Language: English
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    Credit and debt in Indonesia, 860-1930 : from peonage to pawnshop, from kongsi to cooperative (2009)
    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
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    gbv_883282461
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 195 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    ISBN: 9789812308474
    Content: Credit and debt are practical concerns of all times and places. They are also increasingly important topics in economic history and the social sciences, from Marcel Mauss and the anthropology of the gift to the urgent quest for understanding of today's global credit crunch. This volume brings together eight essays on credit and debt in the history of Indonesia, where for centuries debt and debt bondage played central roles in the organization of society, and where efforts to combat 'usury' and free peasants from indebtedness were central to the ethical and nationalist movements of the late colonial period. Topics range from the inscriptions of ninth-century Java to the first global financial crisis in 1930, and from Islamic laws against the charging of interest to the role of Chinese temples and Dutch church charities as credit providers. The history of credit and debt in Indonesia is examined from a wide variety of perspectives - legal, institutional, and cultural as well as economic. Attention is paid to parallels and contrasts with more recent developments, including the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and Indonesia's rise to fame as a pioneer of the current global microfinance revolution
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789812308467
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    Language: English
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    Globalization, environmental change, and social history (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    UID:
    gbv_883352532
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    ISBN: 9780511920677
    Series Statement: International review of social history. Supplement 18
    Content: Throughout all ages, the activities of mankind have weighed heavily upon the environment. In turn, changes in that environment have favoured the rise of certain social groups and limited the actions of others. Despite this, environmental history has remained a 'blind spot' for most social and economic historians. This is to be regretted, as the various and unequal effects of environmental change often explain the strengths and weaknesses of certain social groups, irrespective of their being defined along the lines of class, gender and ethnicity. This volume brings together the expertise of social and environmental historians in an effort to assess the extent to which transnational agents changed socioecological space as a consequence of globalization since the Late Middle Ages
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Globalization, environmental change, and social history : an introduction , The El Dorado of forestry : the eucalyptus in India, South Africa, and Thailand, 1850-2000 , The Mid-Atlantic islands : a theatre of early modern ecocide? , Environmental change and globalization in seventeenth-century France : Dutch traders and the draining of French wetlands (Arles, Petit Poitou) , The colonial famine plot : slavery, free trade, and empire in the French Atlantic, 1763-1791 , Environmental changes, the emergence of a fuel market, and the working conditions of salt makers in Bengal, c.1780-1845 , Industrial life in a limiting landscape : an environmental interpretation of Stalinist Social conditions in the far north , "Pumpkins just got in there": gender and generational conflict and "improved" agriculture in colonial Zimbabwe , Hydro-businesses : national and global demands on the São Francisco River Basin environment of Brazil
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781107401518
    Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9781107401518
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , General works , Sociology
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    AR 14300
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    MS 1170
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    NW 2200
    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Sozialgeschichte ; Umwelt ; Landwirtschaft ; Sozialer Wandel
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511920677
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