The Indonesian Heritage Series (vol. 3)

The early modern period, from about 1400 to 1900 was one in which the various societies of the Archipelago assumed the forms we now see as ‘traditional’, though they are in reality a product of unceasing change. Indonesians became an integral part of the world trading systems, producing the spices that helped fuel a global trade boom, and building cities, states and shipping networks that served it. Islam and Christianity reshaped the way Indonesians understood the world. A combination of new Islamic ideas, new technologies and new wealth brought Indonesian states to their highest pinnacles of power in the early 17th century. When the Dutch East India Company took much of the trade wealth away from these states, Indonesians responded by developing pluralistic networks, alliances and ideologies, which brought societies together without the centralised state.

This volume covers this process up to the fall of the last Indonesian states, which occurred around 1900.

Editor: Anthony Reid
ISBN: 978-981-3018-28-0

148 pp, 290 mm x 220 mm, hardback 
Retail price : Rp. 275.000

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