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- Title
Restoration in Java 1815-1830.
- Authors
SCHRIKKER, ALICIA
- Abstract
This essay reviews the historiographical trends and voids in William I's restoration on Java. William I's policy for Java was changeable and swung between liberal and conservative within fifteen years. It is argued that William I's changeable policy can best be understood through the enlightened rhetoric of progress that was en vogue among all colonial ideologues at the time, rather than through the more traditional dichotomy of liberalism and conservatism. However, when one wants to understand to what extent restoration implied change in colonial experience historians will have to dig deeper. Ultimately though, the essay argues that it is regrettable that the literature on this crucial period of colonial rule in Java is still fragmented and is often written in isolation from debates on restoration in the Netherlands or colonial experiences elsewhere, and vice versa.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; WILLIAM I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843; POLITICAL restorations; HISTORY of Java, Indonesia; LIBERALISM; HISTORY of liberalism; HISTORY of conservatism
- Publication
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2015, Vol 130, Issue 4, p132
- ISSN
0165-0505
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10150