Author: HAASSE, H[ELLA] S. (=H.S. VAN LELYVELD-HAASSE, 1918-2011),
Title: Heren van de Thee.
Description: Amsterdam, Querido, 1992. Stout 8°. Original glossy limp coloured and illustrated wrappers. 302pp. Glossary indonesian-dutch, list of Preanger Regency Tea-Estates, double-p. sketch-map of Preanger Regency, small sketch-map of Java on recte of double-p. map, table of contents, synopsis printed on lower outer cover. Paperback edition.rted. Dutch language novelpartly set in the Preanger regency, Java at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century which includes strong biographical and historic data about some dutch families, runming Tea estates in the Preanger, based upon archives kept by the dutch couple Rudolf Kerkhoven and Jenny Roosegaarde Bisschop, entrepreneurs of a remote Tea-estate Gamboeng, Preanger regency, Western Java. Together with relatives as the Van Der Hucht famili, they managed creating a conglomerate of estates within a few decades. Novel includes information about advanced economic policies, proper wages and labour conditions on behalf of javanese emplyees. Very good copy.

Keywords: novel literature teacultivation preanger java estates economy labourconditions vanderhucht kerboschentrepreneurs culture herigage colonialism agriculture indonesia southeastasia