Author: SZÉKELY-LULOFS, MADELON H. (1899-1955),
Title: Rubber. 16e druk [Sixteenth edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Amber, 19321989. Small 8°. Original publ. cloth, gilded title on spine, dustjacket designed by Josepha Hulskes. 246pp. [3]pp. of publ. list. This edition NOT called-for in holdings Royal Dutch Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV. Dutch language Novel, Author's début, i n which an auithentic and impressive picture is painted of daily life, europeant and indigenous society, and labourconditions on a Deli Rubber Estate (North Sumatra) set on a Deli (Sumatra) in the early 1920s, which was the period of rapid economic change of East Coast Sumatra changing from jungle into into a vast commercial garden. Special attention is paid to the apalling conditions of contract coolies of various ethnic indonesian groups, thus unvailing the true face of imperialist colonialism, which was strongly denied in literary and public critics in Holland after publication. Very fine copy, WITH DUSTJACKET. Rare edition.

Keywords: literature dutch novel deli estates plantation rubbercultivation labourconditions society imperialism economy coolies contract history colonialism indonesia sumatra southeastasia