Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Appreciations xi
5. Chapter One. Prologue in Two Parts 1
6. Chapter Two. The Pulse of the Archive 17
7. PART 1: Colonial Archives and Their Affective States
8. Chapter Three. Habits of a Colonial Heart 56
9. Chapter Four. Developing Historical Negatives 105
10. Chapter Five. Commissions and Their Storied Edges 141
11. PART 2: Watermarks in Colonial History
12. Chapter Six. Hierarchies of Credibility 180
13. Chapter Seven. Imperial Dispositions of Disregard 237
14. Appendix 1. Colonial Chronologies 279
15. Appendix 2. Governors-General of the Netherlands Indies, 1830–1930 285
16. Bibliography 287
17. Index 309