Author: SCHEUER, W.PH.,
Title: Het Grondbezit in de Germaansche Mark en de Javaansche Dessa. [Original Thesis Utrecht University].
Description: Rotterdam, F.G. Mortelman, 1885. Original private clothbacked marbled boards. Hftitle (verso blank). 284pp. Footnotes, [2]pp. errata, table of contents. Dutch language scientific comparative study in which parrallels are described and discussed between private landownership in small germanic peasant communities and the Javanese Desa or Village, Dutch East Indies. Very interesting. Good copy. Scarce. (ubobtrusive library cancellation stamp on ti.-p, covers a bit shaved at rims, spine heavily soiled and spotted, contents good to very good).

Keywords: peasants community germanic javanese java landownership grondbezit comparision comparative science research history java colonialism indonesia southeast asia nineteenth century 19thc. peasants dessa