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Java and Modern Europe - Ambiguous Encounters (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Java and Modern Europe - Ambiguous Encounters (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Building on previous developments, Europe developed from the 18th
century a particular package of characteristics along the whole
spectrum between practical and intellectual that both gave it a
dynamic capacity for expansion and set the format of what is
recognized as the modern world. Because of this development, it
posed a serious challenge to large parts of the non-European world.
This text presents a case study of Europe's impact on an old and
distinctive non-European civilization. Part One deals with the
elements in Europe's strength, technological, political and
intellectual. It also uses Wallerstein's world-systems perspective
to give an economic dimension to this picture of the new world of
Europe, and then looks at the important question of the challenging
place of the Dutch in the new economic order from the 17th to the
18th century. This is followed by a brief account of the Dutch
East-India Company in Java, and its political effects. Part Two
deals with the nature of the Javanese "ancien regime", both in
court and in provincial circles, with a focus on society and
civilization, rather than those staples of Javanese historiography
to date, political events and economic s
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