The saga of Siti Mariah
Mukti (Author), Catherine Manning Muir (Translator)
Offers a window into the workings of cultuurstelsel, a forced cultivation system imposed by the Dutch colonial government in the Dutch East Indies around the 1830s to the 1870s. Embedded in the pages of the book are the lives of Dutch sugar barons, the indigenous elite, European officials, and Chinese middlemen, intersected by Javanese peasants.
1 v. ([xiii]- 390 pages) ; 22 cm
9786029144130, 6029144138
1128309008
Edition originale publié entre novembre 1910 et janvier 1912 à Bandung (Indonésie) par Medan Prijaji