The economic history of Indonesia during the last two centuries of the colonial period

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-276
Author(s):  
David Feeny
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
History Of

The Wood-Beach at Recife: A Contribution to the Economic History of Brazil

1949 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 209-233
Author(s):  
Robert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Red Dye

The cutting and shipment of wood is one of the oldest and most important aspects of Brazilian trade with Portugal. The rich red dye produced from the tree called pau brasil or Brazil wood was esteemed so highly that at first it outweighed in importance all other products of the colony. Most historians agree that the very name of Brazil is derived from this wood. Guarded as a royal monopoly throughout the colonial period, the wood trade ranked with the sugar, tobacco and gold of Brazil as one of the principal sources of revenue of the Portuguese crown. When woods for building were added to the exportation of pau brasil, the trade assumed a new importance, for these woods furnished the mother country with the sinews both of war and commerce, providing the hulls and masts of countless vessels that defended and brought together the distant domains of the Portuguese empire.

The Wood-Beach at Recife: A Contribution to the Economic History of Brazil

1949 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-233
Author(s):  
Robert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Red Dye

The cutting and shipment of wood is one of the oldest and most important aspects of Brazilian trade with Portugal. The rich red dye produced from the tree called pau brasil or Brazil wood was esteemed so highly that at first it outweighed in importance all other products of the colony. Most historians agree that the very name of Brazil is derived from this wood. Guarded as a royal monopoly throughout the colonial period, the wood trade ranked with the sugar, tobacco and gold of Brazil as one of the principal sources of revenue of the Portuguese crown. When woods for building were added to the exportation of pau brasil, the trade assumed a new importance, for these woods furnished the mother country with the sinews both of war and commerce, providing the hulls and masts of countless vessels that defended and brought together the distant domains of the Portuguese empire.

An Economic History of Tropical Africa: Vol. 2, The Colonial Period

1978 ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Peter Kilby ◽  
Z. A. Konczacki ◽  
J. M. Konczacki
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
History Of

Asian Studies: Agrarian History and Orientalism

Itinerario ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-137
Author(s):  
André Wink
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
History Of

J.C. van Leur, Indonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History (Foris Publications, Dordrecht, Holland/USA 1983). 465 p.Six essays by J.C. van Leur (1908-1942) were published in English translation in 1955 as the first volume in the series Selected Studies on Indonesia by Dutch Scholars and the above is an unrevised, photomechanic reprint of the same. The bibliography of Van Leur's writings which is provided in the volume lists another 37 separate items, articles, journalism, reviews, etc. that bear out the author's multifarious involvement in contemporary affairs in Indonesia and elsewhere and which may be of interest to many who have regretted Van Leur's neglect of the history of Indonesia in the 19th and 20th centuries in his major writings. The present six essays all deal with pre-colonial Indonesian or Asian social and economic history and the colonial period is passed over in a few paragraphs.

scholarly journals CONNECTING THE NORTHERN ANDES AND THE ATLANTIC. THE ROLE OF INLAND PORTS IN NEW GRANADA'S INTERREGIONAL TRADE (1770-1809)

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
James V. Torres-Moreno ◽  
José L. Henao-Giraldo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Interregional Trade ◽  
The Andes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional Specialisation

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the role of Mompox in New Granada's interregional trade during the late colonial period. It focuses on the value, structure and destination of exports of domestic goods from Mompox to markets on the Atlantic and the Andes. By unearthing unexplored sources, this paper provides evidence that will help to understand, indirectly, some issues such as the nature and timing of economic growth, the degree of regional specialisation and, above all, the role of inland ports in the economic geography of the viceroyalty. The paper contends, first, that the region experienced a boom–bust cycle during the late colonial period. The export of domestic goods doubled between 1770 and 1800 but subsequently collapsed during the 1802-1809 years. Second, evidence suggests that the region experienced a process of market deepening and widening. Trade flows, then, played a larger role in shaping the economic history of the region than previously thought.

Revisiting the rice deltas and reconsidering modern Southeast Asia's economic history

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Montesano
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Economic History ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The North ◽  
Market Signals ◽  
History Of ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Micro Level

The rise of the three great rice-producing and -exporting deltas of mainland Southeast Asia numbers among the most familiar chapters in the modern history of the region. On a macro level, it exemplifies the integration of the region into the North Atlantic-centered world economy during the age of high imperialism and the consequent shock of the depression of the 1930s. On a micro level, that rise has offered historians an opportunity to examine the responses of Southeast Asian cultivators to market signals; the variation in the allocation of factors of production across the Irrawaddy, Chao Phraya and Mekong deltas; and the implications of those responses and that allocation for reactions to the shock of the inter-war crisis. The principal features of the history of the mainland rice economies between 1850 and the 1930s have indeed grown so familiar as to make that history seem like yesterday's topic. Occasional attempts to propose significant revision to the story have had little impact. And the need for a major monograph on the economic history of the Mekong delta during the French colonial period remains unmet.

The Economic History of South Africa before 1948

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Stefan Schirmer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Huge Challenge

Starting from the time settled agricultural communities first emerged in South Africa, around 400, this chapter describes and analyses economic changes from the precolonial era, through the colonial period, into the first half of the twentieth century. It looks at how agriculture developed and how 19th century mineral discoveries changed the economy and ushered in the modern state. When accommodative spaces for socially engaged entrepreneurs expanded, so did the drivers of long-term economic change. Unfortunately, accommodations in the context of colonialism and racial oppression produced economically and socially destructive labour policies, drastically undermined the prospects for black commercial farmers, and produced segregated, unjust land allocations. The rise of manufacturing represented a huge challenge to the viability of this system, which created new political challenges and eventually resulted in the establishment of the Apartheid system in 1948.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue on colonial institutions and African development

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTOINE PARENT
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Institutions

AbstractThis special issue, devoted to the analysis of colonial institutions in the economic performance of countries both pre- and post-colonialism Africa, aims to be a contribution, in the vein of North (2005), to the field of colonial studies in comparative institutional perspective. The papers in this issue combine the history of economic thought, econometrics, economic history, cliometrics and the analysis of colonial institutions. These approaches shed a new light on the question of path-dependence and historical dynamics. They suggest that as former African colonial countries move away from the colonial period, the shadow of colonial institutions is less marked and is now rivalled in importance by the extent of democracy, which now plays a crucial role in their economic development.

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