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Article: Extremes in the Archipelago: Trade and Economic Development in the Outer Islands of Indonesia, 1900-1942.(Book Review)
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- ASEAN Economic Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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By Jeroen Touwen. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001. Pp. 459.
Although the fabled "Spice Islands" were originally located in eastern Indonesia, during Dutch colonial rule the island of Java assumed, over time, centrality of the Dutch East Indies. That is until the 1900s. Jeroen Touwen has written a volume that restores some balance through an analysis of trading patterns in the outer islands of the Dutch East Indies during the late colonial period. By "Outer Islands" Touwen means everything outside of Java. The enormity of this undertaking should be readily apparent given the extraordinary diversity of these regions in just about every conceivable manner--coupled with ...