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Subject: Colonialism
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Colonial Journals of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
Database
This digital collection consists of ninety serials and journals related to the colonial enterprise in the Dutch East and West Indies. The publications are mainly in Dutch and cover the period of the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. They pertain to the cultivation of tropical products such […]
Agrarian studies, Agriculture, Colonial history, Colonialism, Economic history, General, History, Natural Sciences, Plantation sector
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Colonial Sources of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
Database
This digital collection consists of 2863 publications related to the colonial enterprise in the Dutch East and West Indies. The publications are mainly in Dutch and cover the period of the last quarter of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. They include titles on the cultivation of tropical products such as […]
Agriculture, Colonial history, Colonialism, Cultural studies, Economics, History, Indonesian studies, Plantation sector, Politics, Social and economic history, Society
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Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan
E-book
Olof G. Lidin 2002 The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. Other Portuguese rapidly followed and Japan became aware of a world beyond India. The Portuguese brought with them the musket, which was quickly copied and […]
Read moreThe Impossibility of Liberalism and Democracy in Indonesia 1840-1940
E-book
Thommy Svensson 1994 Explores this crisis of humanitarian liberalism and colonialism, focusing on the collapse of laissez-faire doctrines in the late 19th century and the unrecognised role that liberal humanitarian ideas played in the later colonial period.
Read moreMobile Citizens: French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1954
E-book
Natasha Pairaudeau 2016 When France laid claim to the territories which became French Indochina, its beleaguered trading posts on the east coast of India gained a new purpose, sending Indians to help secure and administer its newest possessions and to assist in their commercial expansion. The migrants were among those peoples of France’s overseas empire […]
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