Colonial exploitation and economic development [electronic resource] : the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compared / edited by Ewout Frankema and Frans Buelens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Extractive institutions in the Congo : checks and balances in the longue durãaee / Andreas Exenberger and Simon Hartmann -- 2. Colonial extraction in the Indonesian archipelago : a long historical view / Thee Kian Wie -- 3. Varieties of exploitation in colonial settings : Dutch and Belgian policies in Indonesia and the Congo and their legacies / Anne Booth -- 4. The land tenure system in the Congo, 1885-1960 : actors, motivations, and consequences / Piet Clement -- 5. In the shadow of opium : tax farming and the political economy of colonial extraction in Java, 1807-1911 / Abdul Wahid -- 6. Fiscal policy in the Belgian Congo in comparative perspective / Leigh Gardner -- 7. Colonial education and post-colonial governance in the Congo and Indonesia / Ewout Frankema -- 8. (Un)freedom : colonial labor relations in Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compared / Vincent Houben and Julia Seibert -- 9. Rubber cultivation in Indonesia and the Congo from the 1910s to the 1950s : divergent paths / William G. Clarence-Smith -- 10. Manufacturing and foreign investment in colonial Indonesia / J. Thomas Lindblad -- 11. The industrialization of the Belgian Congo / Frans Buelens and Danny Cassimon -- 12. Mobutu, Suharto, and the challenges of nation-building and economic development, 1965-97 / Jan-Frederik Abbeloos.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.