Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000. By H. W. Dick (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies Research in International Studies Southeast Asia Series No. 106, Ohio University Press, 2002. xxix plus 541 pp.).

Howard Dick, an economic historian at the University of Melbourne's Australian Centre of International Business, calls for a re-evaluation of the colonial heritage of Surabaya, and of Indonesia generally, in light of post-colonial events. During the struggle for independence, Indonesians fought against the concentration of wealth ...

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