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Jones, Eric Alan.

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Wives, slaves, and concubines: A history of the female underclass in Dutch Asia (Indonesia).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wives, slaves, and concubines: A history of the female underclass in Dutch Asia (Indonesia)./
Author:	Jones, Eric Alan.
Description:	259 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3436.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-09A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3105258

Wives, slaves, and concubines: A history of the female underclass in Dutch Asia (Indonesia).
Jones, Eric Alan.

Wives, slaves, and concubines: A history of the female underclass in Dutch Asia (Indonesia). - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3436.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

Based primarily on eighteenth-century criminal records from the Court of Aldermen in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), this dissertation explores the way in which demographic and economic constraints influenced colonial law, and details the effects of these forces on the female underclass there. Given a stark demographic situation, the resulting intermarriage and racial mixing between European men and Asian women encouraged the promulgation of universal law codes in Dutch East India Company (VOC) settlements. These laws were advantageous for Asian VOC-brides, giving them, for example, access to Company courts and the same, relatively progressive, inheritance and other legal rights as Dutch women.Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Wives, slaves, and concubines: A history of the female underclass in Dutch Asia (Indonesia).
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520 $a However, equality before the Roman-Dutch law had the opposite effect for the non-Company wives, female-slaves, and concubines of the underclass. Some felt corralled by the non-traditional, legal binary of free versus slave and chose to run away. The Aldermen captured these women, inadvertently capturing the most intimate details of their lives for the historian. Another set of cases deals with women who abused their inferiors. Either the violence they meted out or the response it invoked landed them in court, along with a host of witnesses and co-defendants, to tell their stories. Their narratives demonstrate an important tension in colonial society and highlight a critical moment in history. Perched, as this moment was, on the divide between colonial eras it provides a perspective on the waning of one global order and the dawn of another. By the late 1700s, we already see the origins of the exploitative plantation economy of the late colonial state that catapulted the Netherlands into the First World and drove Indonesia into the Third. Masters and mistresses no longer felt vertically bonded with their subjects in terms of reciprocal relationships of dependency. Instead their interests in their underlings were purely economic and their behavior followed suit. At the heart of my research are answers to important questions about the workings of mixed-ethnic societies, the legacy of colonialism, the nexus of crime and gender, and the beginnings of the modern economic world system.
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