Author: CLEMENS, A.H.P. & J.TH. LINDBLAD (EDITORS),
Title: Het Belang van de Buitengewesten; Economische expansie en koloniale staatsvorming in de Buitengewesten van Nederlands-Indië 1870-1940. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Amsterdam, NEHA, 1989. Original limp glossy coloured wrappers, cover title with a large illustration at top. 306pp. Many captioned black/white illustrations on plates after old photographs, numerous comparative tables, graphs, statistics and diagrams in text and full page, extensive footnotes and references at end of each contribution, bibliography, provisional economic bibliography covering the Outer Provinces, C.V. to contributors at very end, publ. serial list on verso of french title, table of contents. [NEHA - Series III]. Collection of 10 dutch language contributions on the economic and political dutch colonial expansion in the so-called Buitengewesten, or, Outer Provinces of the Dutch East Indies, e.g. outside Java. Detailed comparative surveys of unparallelled economic expansion of North-, and East Coast Sumatra,West-Kalimantan (Borneo), The Moluccas, etc.; the Aceh war, introduction of dutch banks in Sumatra, establishment of dutch companies in holland, indigenous entrepreneurs, including a prvoisional topical bibliography. With Contributions by J.Th. Lindblad, C.J.M. Potting, P.T. Scholte (et.al.). Very fine copy.

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