Format:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415521741
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9781136759406
Series Statement:
Routledge Explorations in Economic History Series
Content:
This book discusses the comparative legacy of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a wide range of social, political, economic and institutional perspectives
Note:
Intro -- Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compared -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1 Colonial exploitation and economic development -- 0.2 Comparing the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies -- 0.3 Post-colonial economic divergence -- 0.4 Differences in the evolution of colonial connections -- 0.5 Organization -- 1 Extractive institutions in the Congo: checks and balances in the longue durée -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Pre-colonial history: traditional checks and balances -- 1.3 Colonial history: unchecked power -- 1.4 Post-colonial history: the unbalanced failing state -- 1.5 Conclusions -- 2 Colonial extraction in the Indonesian archipelago: a long historical view -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Dutch East India Company (VOC), 1602-1799 -- 2.3 The transformation of colonial rule, 1799-1830 -- 2.4 The Cultivation System (CS), 1830-70 -- 2.5 The liberal reforms, 1870-1900 -- 2.6 The Ethical Policy, 1900s-20s -- 2.7 The Great Depression, the Japanese occupation, and Indonesia's independence, 1929-45 -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3 Varieties of exploitation in colonial settings: Dutch and Belgian policies in Indonesia and the Congo and their legacies -- 3.1 Colonial exploitation: some definitions -- 3.2 Explaining the divergence in GDP growth after 1970 -- 3.3 Indonesia, 1830-1942: a better class of exploitation? -- 3.4 The evolution of the Congo Colonial State: comparisons with Indonesia -- 3.5 Looking again at the post-1970s divergence -- 4 The land tenure system in the Congo, 1885-1960: actors, motivations, and consequences -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Staking a claim: land ownership status in the Congo Free State, 1885-1908 -- 4.3 From the Congo Free State to the Belgian Congo: hesitant reform
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4.4 Surveying the land: the decree of 1934 and formalized land adjudications -- 4.5 Land legislation disputes and the end of colonialism -- 4.6 Land policies and rural development -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 5 In the shadow of opium: tax farming and the political economy of colonial extraction in Java, 1807-1911 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The expansion of tax farming under Dutch colonial rule -- 5.3 The opium tax farm -- 5.4 The small tax farms -- 5.5 The end of tax farming and its long-term effects -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6 Fiscal policy in the Belgian Congo in comparative perspective -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A difficult inheritance: the fiscal legacy of the Congo Free State -- 6.3 Reforming the Congo's tax system after 1908 -- 6.4 Public spending: a more familiar pattern -- 6.5 Financial relations between the Congo and the Belgian state after 1908 -- 6.6 Conclusion: a colonial state struggling to catch up -- 7 Colonial education and post-colonial governance in the Congo and Indonesia -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Different approaches to colonial educational development -- 7.3 Comparing school enrollment rates, 1880-2000 -- 7.4 The success of the missionary effort in the Congo -- 7.5 Comparing the quality of education -- 7.6 Education for self-determination -- 7.7 Conclusion -- 8 (Un)freedom: colonial labor relations in Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compared -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Colonial rural exploitation in Java -- 8.3 The labor regime on the Outer Islands -- 8.4 New forms of unfree labor in the Belgian Congo -- 8.5 Comparative observations -- 9 Rubber cultivation in Indonesia and the Congo from the 1910s to the 1950s: divergent paths -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Factor endowment in Indonesia and the Congo -- 9.3 Large plantations in Indonesia -- 9.4 Large plantations in the Congo -- 9.5 Smallholdings in Indonesia
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9.6 Smallholdings in the Congo -- 9.7 Conclusion -- 10 Manufacturing and foreign investment in colonial Indonesia -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Modernity in a traditional context -- 10.3 The different faces of capitalism -- 10.4 Unilever Indonesia -- 10.5 Conclusion -- 11 The industrialization of the Belgian Congo -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 "Raubwirtschaft" (1885-1908) -- 11.3 The first wave of industrialization (1920-40) -- 11.4 The second wave of industrialization (1940-58) -- 11.5 Planning for the development of heavy industries (1958-60) -- 11.6 The collapse of the Congolese industrial complex -- 11.7 Summary and conclusions -- 12 Mobutu, Suharto, and the challenges of nation-building and economic development, 1965-97 -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Similar challenges, different circumstances -- 12.3 Political versus economic capacity building -- 12.4 Urban versus rural interests -- 12.5 The reversal of fortune -- 12.6 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Frankema, Ewout Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415521741
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English
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