The making of the periphery : how island Southeast Asia became a mass exporter of labor /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bosma, Ulbe, 1962- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Series:	Columbia studies in international and global history.
Subjects:	Foreign workers, Southeast Asian > History. Labor market > Southeast Asia > History. Southeast Asia > Population > History. Southeast Asia > Dependency on foreign countries > History. Southeast Asia > Economic conditions > 19th century. Southeast Asia > Economic conditions > 20th century. 1800-1999 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Smallpox vaccination and demographic divergences in the nineteenth century
The external arena : local slavery and international trade
Saved from smallpox, but starving in the sugar cane fields : Java and the northwestern Philippines
The labor-scarce commodity frontiers, 1870s to 1942
The periphery revisited : commodity exports, food, and industry, 1870s-1942
Postcolonial continuities in plantations and migrations.