The Making of a Periphery : : How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor / / Ulbe Bosma.
Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region with products that found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more than ten million emigrants from the region working all over the world. Ho...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Maps, and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE. Smallpox Vaccination And Demographic Divergences In The Nineteenth Century
- CHAPTER TWO. The External Arena: Local Slavery and International Trade
- CHAPTER THREE. Saved from Smallpox but Starving in the Sugar Cane Fields: Java and the Northwestern Philippines
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Labor-Scarce Commodity Frontiers, 1870s-1942
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Periphery Revisited: Commodity Exports, Food, and Industry, 1870s- 1942
- CHAPTER SIX. Postcolonial Continuities in Plantations and Migrations
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix: Methodological Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index