CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. ILLUSTRATIONS xi
5. MAPS xiii
6. INTRODUCTION THE GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND xv
7. I. The Beginnings of Indonesian Civilization 3
8. II. Kings of Java 20
9. III. A Naval Empire of the Fourteenth Century 36
10. IV. Religious devolution in Indonesia 50
11. V. How the Dutch Came to the Indies 65
12. VI. The Founding of Batavia 79
13. VII. A Dutch Commercial Empire 90
14. VIII. Bat avian Burghers and Coffee Planters 99
15. IX. The Downfall of the Dutch Commercial Empire 118
16. X. Liberalism Comes to the Indies 139
17. XI. Java–A Government Plantation 151
18. XII. Planters, Soldiers, and Professors 162
19. XIII. Indonesian Nationalism 178
20. XIV. The Japanese Invasion 196
21. INDEX 223