Beyond Political Skin Colonial to National Economies in Indonesia an

This book explains the dynamics behind the economic transformation from colonial era to post-independence period in Indonesia and Vietnam. It analyses the different policies of Vietnamese and Indonesian governments towards the economic legacies of colonia

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Beyond Political Skin Colonial to National Economies in Indonesia and Vietnam (1910s–1960s)

Beyond Political Skin

Van Thuy Pham

Beyond Political Skin Colonial to National Economies in Indonesia and Vietnam (1910s–1960s)

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Van Thuy Pham College of Social Sciences and Humanities Vietnam National University, Hanoi Hanoi, Vietnam

ISBN 978-981-13-3710-9 ISBN 978-981-13-3711-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3711-6

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Preface and Acknowledgements

This book transpired from my 2014 Ph.D. dissertation at the Institute for History of Leiden University. The time frame of the doctoral programme was 4 years, but the writing of the dissertation has a long history. I began my career as lecturer in World History at the Faculty of History, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, with a special interest in the maritime history of Southeast Asia. Trading activities in the Straits of Malacca in the fifteenth century were the topic I intended to pursue when I applied to the Encompass (Encountering a Common Past in Asia) programme at the Institute for History, Leiden University in the summer of 2006. In Leiden, I became fascinated with its distinguished tradition of Indonesian studies, and in next to no time I realized that I had better switch my attention to Indonesia. Under the supervision of Prof. Leonard Blussé and Dr. Alicia Schrikker, respectively, director and coordinator of Encompass, I wrote my second B.A. thesis about the Dutch conquest of Makassar in 1666–1669. I had then the chance to explore the western part of the Archipelago