Description
Book SynopsisA fascinating ethnographic history that analyses how popular resistance actively molded both the form of colonialism and the social, economic, and political experience of the Javanese laboring communities on Sumatra's plantation borders.
Trade ReviewFrom written historical records, as well as from very broad and intensive field work, Ann Laura Stoler has pieced together an eminently rich and meaningful episode of Indonesian history. . . . What makes for its quality is the remarkable balance, maintained throughout the study, between description, analysis and interpretation." —
Pacific Affairs"Stoler has produced a stunning and seminal study. . . . This is a superb piece of interdisciplinary research. . . ." —
World Development". . . intellectually provocative and significant." —
Journal of Asian Studies". . . an interesting and valuable book . . . " —
Times Literary Supplement". . . a reissue of a fine field study together with a smaller . . . fascinating preface which explores the context of the production of academic scholarship." —
Pacific Affairs"From written historical records, as well as from very broad and intensive field work, Ann Laura Stoler has pieced together an eminently rich and meaningful episode of Indonesian history. . . . What makes for its quality is the remarkable balance, maintained throughout the study, between description, analysis and interpretation." —
Pacific Affairs "A well-crafted and expertly researched history . . . exhibits a brand of intellectual integrity that is rare in a work so critical and this makes it a major contribution to the literature of the impact of imperialism and capitalism on the traditional populations of the Third World." —
Peasant Studies
