Professor Ann Kumar Southeast Asian Civilisation Archive From c. 1800 to the End of the Culture System How the Dutch East Indies moved from VOC inheritance to colonial state-building, reform, war and forced cultivation. Course: Asian Civilisation IIISE Lecture: Lecture I Hub: The Colonial Engine Cross-link: Nationalist Awakening Source: 1800 to End of Culture System […]
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Professor Ann Kumar Southeast Asian Civilisation Archive Changes in the Nature of the VOC “Empire” Dutch and Indonesians in the Eighteenth Century: Java, extraction and the decline of the VOC. Course: Asian Civilisation IIISE Year: First Term 1974 Hub: The Colonial Engine Cross-link: Indigenous Sovereignty Source: AK PDF 005 This lecture examines the changing nature
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Professor Ann Kumar Southeast Asian Civilisation Archive The Moluccan Spice Monopoly How a cosmopolitan free port challenged the Dutch spice monopoly — and how its defeat reshaped trade, sovereignty and migration across Southeast Asia. Course: Asian Civilisation IIISE Year: 1973 Hub: The Colonial Engine Cross-link: Indigenous Sovereignty Source: AK PDF 004 This lecture follows the
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Professor Ann Kumar Southeast Asian Civilisation Archive Makassar and the Bongaya Treaty How the fall of Makassar broke a major free port of Southeast Asia and strengthened Dutch monopoly power in the archipelago. Lecture package: AK-L09 Hub: The Colonial Engine Source: PDF Low Res-0004 breakout This lecture examines Makassar as one of the great open
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Professor Ann Kumar Southeast Asian Civilisation Archive Java Under the VOC: Forced Deliveries, Coffee-Sergeants and the Chinese Crisis How the Dutch East India Company governed Java through local aristocrats, commodity extraction, forced deliveries and the administrative foundations of colonial rule. Course: Asian Civilisation IIISE Year: 1973–74 Hub: The Colonial Engine Cross-link: Indigenous Sovereignty Source: AK
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Professor Ann Kumar Southeast Asian Civilisation Archive The Decline of the VOC and the Transformation of Dutch Rule How the Dutch East India Company moved from Coen’s far-flung trade empire toward Java-centred extraction, military intervention and the administrative foundations of colonial rule. Course: Asian Civilisation IIISE Year: 1973–74 Hub: The Colonial Engine Cross-link: Indigenous Sovereignty
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Professor Ann Kumar Southeast Asian Civilisation Archive The Cultivation System / Cultuurstelsel How Van den Bosch turned Java into a state-managed engine of export production — and how forced cultivation reshaped Dutch wealth, Javanese labour and colonial criticism. Course: Asian Civilisation IIISE Lecture: Lecture I Hub: The Colonial Engine Cross-link: Nationalist Awakening Source: 1800 to
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Professor Ann Kumar Southeast Asian Civilisation Archive The Liberal Period and the Rise of Plantation Capitalism How the end of the Culture System opened Java and the wider Indies to private enterprise, plantation capital and a new phase of Dutch colonial expansion. Course: Asian Civilisation IIISE Lecture: Lecture II Hub: The Colonial Engine Cross-link: Nationalist
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Professor Ann Kumar Southeast Asian Civilisation Archive The Dutch Strategy in the Seventeenth Century How the Dutch East India Company moved from maritime trade to coercive monopoly and colonial power in the Indonesian world. Course: Asian Civilisation IIISE Year: 1973 Hub: The Colonial Engine Source: AK PDF 004 This lecture examines the seventeenth-century strategy of
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