Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables, Maps, and Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. CHAPTER ONE. Smallpox Vaccination And Demographic Divergences In The Nineteenth Century 23
7. CHAPTER TWO. The External Arena: Local Slavery and International Trade 44
8. CHAPTER THREE. Saved from Smallpox but Starving in the Sugar Cane Fields: Java and the Northwestern Philippines 71
9. CHAPTER FOUR. The Labor-Scarce Commodity Frontiers, 1870s–1942 103
10. CHAPTER FIVE. The Periphery Revisited: Commodity Exports, Food, and Industry, 1870s– 1942 130
11. CHAPTER SIX. Postcolonial Continuities in Plantations and Migrations 159
12. CONCLUSION 180
13. Appendix: Methodological Notes 187
14. Notes 189
15. Bibliography 241
16. Index 295