Author: [LION, I.J.?],
Title: Het Ministerie Thorbecke en zijne daden op koloniaal gebied. Orig. edn.
Description: 's-Gravenhage, H.C. Susan CHzoon, 1862. sm.8°. orig. printed wraps. 24pp. Vehement, almost insulting attack on the presentation of a bill to dutch parliament on [agricultural] cultivation in colonial Indonesia, by the [liberal] Thorbecke-cabinet. The brochure includes a retort by the privvy councillor [Baron] W.R. van Hoëvell on author's other brochures published. Good copy. Rare. (small paper ex-lib. label pasted in upper right corner of front wrapper).

Keywords: brochure cultuurwet cultivation law legislation bill thorbecke colonialism politics indonesia southeast asis 19thc.