Author: SCHALK, ARTHUR VAN,
Title: Colonial Control and Peasant resources in Java. Agricultural Involution reconsidered. [Original dissertation Amsterdam Municipal Univerity].
Description: Amsterdam, Instituut voor Sociale Geografie, 1986. 8°. Original wrappers, with covertitle in bold black type. 210pp. Many comparative tables in text and full-page, local situation maps in text with legenda, references, bibliography, appendices, conculusion, summaries in dutch and bahasa indonesia, glossary, table of contents. English language doctoral dissertation promovendus researches and analyzes in detail agricultural involution on modern Java: agricultural developments in East and Central Java, the main theme has been the impact of colonial policies and the establishment of the Sugar Industry from the early cultivation system period through the early twentieth century. Particular attention was paid to the views of Clifford Geertz, as expressed in his essay on Agricultural Involution . In that essay the lack of Development of Javanese Agriculture was pointed out to be the result of the particular form of colonial government and economic activity, in combination with indigenous social norms and wet rice cultivation. Very fine copy.

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