Descrying the bourgeoisie

Sugar, capital and state in the Netherlands Indies, circa 1840-1884

Bibliographic Data

ID2902525
AuthorsG Roger Knight (1. [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume163
Issue1
Pages34-66
Publication date2008-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22134379-90003679
OpenAlexW2088607546
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

Any attempt to descry the existence of a significant colonial bourgeoisie in Java during the middle decades of the nineteenth century might appear futile. An old, and apparently still lingering, orthodoxy postulates a colonial state uniquely in thrall to a powerful bureaucracy: one that exercised so extensive a control over resources as to largely preclude bourgeois capital formation. On this reading, colonial proprietorship, notably in sugar, was seignorial in nature rather than bourgeois

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bourgeoisie · Bureaucracy · Capital (architecture · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Orthodoxy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · State (computer science · Asian Studies and History · History · Law

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