Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits From an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java

Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial transaction, however, soon became a system of compulsory production. This book shows...

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Main Author:	Breman, Jan
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam University Press 2021
Subjects:	forced labour coffee cultivation system colonialism java Corvée Dutch East India Company Herman Willem Daendels Parahyangan Peasant thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
Online Access:	597440
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