Title The making of a periphery : how island Southeast Asia became a mass exporter of labor / Ulbe Bosma

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Columbia studies in international and global history Columbia studies in international and global history. 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 Summary "Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region with products that found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more than ten million emigrants from the region working all over the world. How did a prosperous region become a peripheral one? In The Making of a Periphery, Ulbe Bosma draws on new archival sources from the colonial period to the present to demonstrate how high demographic growth and a long history of bonded labor relegated Southeast Asia to the margins of the global economy. Bosma finds that the region's contact with colonial trading powers during the early nineteenth century led to improved health care and longer life spans as the Spanish and Dutch colonial governments began to vaccinate their subjects against smallpox. The resulting abundance of workers ushered in extensive migration toward emerging labor-intensive plantation and mining belts. European powers exploited existing patron-client labor systems with the intermediation of Indigenous elites and non-European agents to develop extractive industries and plantation agriculture. Bosma shows that these trends shaped the postcolonial era as these migration networks expanded far beyond the region"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Foreign workers, Southeast Asian -- History Labor market -- Southeast Asia -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. Economic assistance -- Foreign countries Economic history Foreign workers, Southeast Asian Labor market Population SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Population -- History Southeast Asia -- Dependency on foreign countries -- History Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions -- 19th century Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Subject Southeast Asia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018057960 ISBN 0231547900 9780231547901

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