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The
incorporation of local potentates with-in the Dutch administrative
system, the shift from swidden cultivation to plantation agriculture and
the transformation of taxation from being based on control over manpower
resources to land ownership rights are developments more commonly
ascribed to the cultivation system of the nineteenth century. Describing
how the Dutch East India Company’s quest for saleable tropical goods
transformed Javanese society, this monograph shows that the impact of
the eighteenth-century Dutch-Javanese joint venture anticipated these
developments, and that the Dutch Company did not work within a
pre-existing Javanese “feudal” system; it created one. Published
by NIAS Press |
