Dutch commerce and Chinese merchants in Java : colonial relationships in trade and finance, 1800-1942

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Glossary --1. Introduction --Research outline --Access to capital, information and security --The Indonesian case --Sources --Research method --2. Prelude to rapid expansion (1800-1884) --The colonial state and the economy --The resilience of private enterprise --Private enterprise under the cultivation system --Tilting the balance : finance in transition --Wholesalers and retailers --3. Crisis and adaptation (1884-1890s) --Economic policy and political expansion --The organization of trade --The onset of the crisis : sugar and coffee --The beginning of the crisis --The crisis experienced --The crisis prolonged : import and credit --4. Redefining Dutch-Chinese commercial relations (1890s-1910) --An awkward alliance : the interdependence of Dutch and Chinese business --The economic position of the Chinese under scrutiny --A wave of failures : Surabaya in the late 1890s --The Chinese boycot of the Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam --5. The road to expansion (1910-1930) --The late colonial state : consolidation and conflict --The colonial economy before 1914 --The lure of sugar --DJ B and the outbreak of the First World War --The colonial economy after 1914 --The Kwik Hoo Tong Handelmaatschappij : a prominent Chinese in sugar --6. Economic crisis and commercial resilience (1930-1942) --The economic experience of the 1930s --The incidence of failure : bankruptcy cases in the 1920s and 1930s --Commercial resilience : two examples of crisis management in the 1930s --7. Conclusion --A bird's-eye view of colonial trade --Trade dynamics.