I. Strategies of Dominance and Colonial Societies: NEW IMPERIALISM
 

A. Similarities Among the Colonizers
 

1. Indigenous peoples as obstacles to fortune-hunting Europeans
 
 
 
 

2. Indigenous = "heathens"
 
 
 
 

3. Indigenous Cultures Viewed as Inferior
 
 
 
 
 
 

4. Indigenous Peoples Seen as "Improveable."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

5. Styles of Colonial Rule
 
 
 
 
 
 

B. Indonesia
 
 
 

1. Chronology.
 
 

a. 1500-1800
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

b. 1816-1830, 1830-1870
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

c. Liberal and Ethical Policies, ~1860s-1901, 1901~1926/27
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

2. Indonesian Society
 

a. Social Order
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

b. Reactions against Dutch

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Key Terms

Liberalism
Java
India
Algeria
Belgian Congo
Mozambique
Angola
Portuguese and Spanish
Dutch
Heeren XVII
Dutch East India Company
Cultivation System/cultuurstelsel
land tax'
Java
Sumatra
cash crops
Van Deventer writes “A Debt of Honor” 1901
De Gids
Ethical Policy
Europeans
Eurasians
"Indonesians"
Chinese
paternalism
sharecroppers
Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904)
Letters of a Javanese Princess (1899-1904)
boepati
Budi Utomo (Noble Endeavour) 1908
Sarekat Islam (1912)
Indies Party (1910)
Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) 1914
 

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