商品簡介
Conventional wisdom has it that the port town of Banten on the western tip of Java, plummeted from prosperity to poverty over the course of the century. Japanese historian Ota, whose main interests are West Java and the 19th-century sugar industry, looks closely to discern what really happened. He argues that the social and trading systems of Banten were in a constant state of transformation in reaction to the Western presence--Dutch, French, and Britishand to shifts in the world economy, and this led to the gradual creation of a colonial society between 1750 and 1830 Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Ota Atsushi, obtained his MA in History in 1996 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan and received his doctorate in History at Leiden University in 2005. He is Associate Research Fellow at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His main interests are the history of West Java, and the nineteenth-century sugar industry.
