Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. MAPS VIII
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
5. INTRODUCTION XI
6. CHAPTER ONE. Writing and Speaking: Approaching the History of Southeast Sumatra 1
7. CHAPTER TWO. Families and Exchanges: The Seventeenth-Century Pepper Trade 38
8. CHAPTER THREE. Accounts and Reckonings: Upstream-Downstream Tensions and Jambi-Palembang Rivalry 74
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Rulers and Memories: Good and Bad Times in Palembang and Jambi 110
10. CHAPTER FIVE. Contracts and Obligations: Upstream-Downstream Relations in Eighteenth-Century Jambi 145
11. CHAPTER SIX. Kings and Heroes: Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin of Palembang (1724-1757) 177
12. CHAPTER SEVEN. Descriptions and Judgments: Southeast Sumatra in a Time of “Decline” 211
13. CONCLUSION: To Live as Brothers 243
14. ABBREVIATIONS 251
15. NOTES 253
16. GLOSSARY 293
17. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 297
18. INDEX 315
19. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 325