This volume of essays is intended to honour an exceptional, indeed a unique scholar. Joan Hardjono grew up in Sydney and graduated from Sydney University in the mid-1950s. She majored in English and Geography and like most girls in those years who had managed to complete a tertiary degree, she probably expected to embark on a career as a high school teacher in Australia. But no doubt prompted b…
Sebagian besar artikel dalam buku ini sebelumnya telah disajikan dalam konferensi tentang Sejarah Ekonomi Indonesia di Masa Penjajahan Belanda, yang diadakan di Australian National University (ANU), Desember 1983. Makalah-makalah yang disajikan dalam konferensi tersebut dengan jelas memperlihatkan keanekaragaman minat para sejarawan dan ekonom yang telah mengkaji berbagai aspek sejarah perekono…
This book attempts a comparative study of the economic and social development of colonial territories in East and Southeast Asia in the first four decades of the twentieth century and of the consequences of that development for the transition to independence after 1945. At the beginning of the twentieth century, five colonial powers were active in East and Southeast Asia. Three were European. T…
When we look at world politics through a different set of lenses—ones that reveal how the power of gender blinds us to the presence of women in international affairs—we begin to see what lies below the surface of the interstate power exchanges called international relations. Some women wield traditional international power as heads of state. There are also women in positions of less visible…