Author: LEKKERKERKER, C.
Title: Land en volk van Java. Eerste Deel: Inleiding en algemeene beschrijving met losse bijlagen over de administratieve indeeling en de sterkte der bevolkingsgroepen. [vol. I. All publ.].
Description: Groningen-Batavia, Wolters, 1938. thick 8°. cloth. Hftitle(verso blank). (VIII), 772pp. tables in text, with so-called 'Bijlagen loosely inserted (a-p)[16]pp. of tables, list of abbrev. used, register, list of contents. COOLHAAS/SCHUTTE, p. 52. An extensive and well-documented monograph of dutch colonial Java, (:) the etymological meaning of the james Java, Sunda and Madura, physical features, population and civil administration, javanese and european society, trade and industry, both european and indigenous. Incl. the loosely inserted appendices lettered A-P, supplying extensive statistical information in connection with general text, in general not present. Although publisher;s brochure announced a second volume, it has never been published. A much underestimated study. Good to very good copy, complete.

Keywords: java historygeography geology javanese sundanese madurese history society trade inustry means subsistence administration politics handbook colonialism indonesia southeast asia culture anthropology eth