Pieter Spierenburg
Early modern prisons and the dye trade. The fate of convict rasping as proof for the insufficiency of the economic approach to prison history
1-17
Pim Kooij and Vincent Sleebe
A small village in a changing world. Integral history at a local level
19-36
Jan Luiten van Zanden
From peasant economy to modern market-oriented agriculture. The transformation of the rural economy of the eastern Netherlands 1800-1914
37-59
Kitty de Leeuw
Local costume in the Netherlands, 1800-today. An out-of-date position or collective stance?
61-80
Lodewijk Brunt and Heleen Ronden
The enemy without a face. Cholera in Amsterdam, 1832
81-98
Loes van der Valk
Poor law and social security legislation in the Netherlands
99-118
Joost Jonker
Sinecures or sinews of power? Interlocking directorships and bank-industry relations in the Netherlands, 1910-1940
119-131
Nico Dros
Javanese labour relations in a changing rural economy, 1830-1870
133-153
Freek Colombijn
Nostalgia for a better future. Organization of economic life in a colonial trading town: Padang (West Sumatra), 1906-1942
155-181
J. Thomas Lindblad
Foreign investment in late-colonial and post-colonial Indonesia
183-208
Contributors
209-210