Item #6564 Taming the Coolie Beast Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia. Jan BREMAN.
Taming the Coolie Beast Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia
Taming the Coolie Beast Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia

Taming the Coolie Beast Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia

Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta & Madras: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. xviii, [1], 2-321 followed by plates. Frontis. photo. Illustrated with a section of 40 superb photo reproductions. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Endpaper maps. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Fore-edges of boards bumped. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket that shows faded spine and light edge-wear. Very Good- / Very Good. Item #6564

Grim revelations of the brutal use of coolie labor on tobacco plantations in Sumatra. Per jacket-flap copy, "an angry book, powerfully written and backed by sound scholarship."

Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

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Price: $100.00