Sumatran Sultanate And Colonial State Jambi And The Rise Of Dutch Imperialism 1830 1907

Download or read book Sumatran Sultanate and Colonial State written by Elsbeth Locher-Scholten and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of Professor Locher-Scholten's 1994 Dutch text, a study of the reaction to Dutch colonial expansion by the Sumatran sultanate of Jambi. The Dutch text has been called "an excellent teaching tool for work on the Netherlands imperial project " [Locher-Scholten's] extensive archive work, in both Holland and Indonesia, her explicit reference to secondary theoretical works, and her useful lists mean that her analysis is transparent and accessible."