Java, Sumatra, and the Other Islands of the Dutch East Indies – A. Cabaton (1911) (1st ed)

S$115.00

Java, Sumatra, and the Other Islands of the Dutch East Indies – A. Cabaton (1911) (1st ed)

S$115.00

Title: Java, Sumatra, and the Other Islands of the Dutch East Indies

Author: A. Cabaton, Bernard Miall (trans.)

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. First English edition.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library book, with library stamps and markings. Book in decent condition, with many black-and-white plates and a large foldout map of Indonesia. Small closed tear to map.

Contents:

Historical Sketch

Generalities

Java and Madura

Administrative Divisions of Java

The Natives of Java

The Javanese Mind

The Oriental Foreign Element

Europeans in Java

The Administration in Java

The Products of Java

Agriculture

Forest & Mines

Sumatra and Riouw Lingga

The Political and Economic Condition of Sumatra and Riouw Lingga

Borneo

Celebes and Its Dependencies

The Moluccas and New Guinea

Timor and its Dependences

About the author (from Wikipedia):

Antoine Cabaton (11 December 1863 – 25 November 1942) was a French philologist, one of the founders of the insulindian studies. Besides his teaching duties, his researches and publications were devoted not only to language but also religion, history and contemporary issues.