...R. E. Elson Lombok: Conquest, Colonization and Underdevelopment, 1870–1940 . By Alfons van der Kraan . Singapore : Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) (Asian Studies Association of Australia, Southeast Asia Publication Series No. 5), 1980 . xiv , 277 pp. Plates, Tables, Maps, Notes...

...R. E. Elson Riding the Dutch Tiger: The Dutch East Indies Company and the Northeast Coast of Java, 1680–1743 . By Luc Nagtegaal . Translated by Beverley Jackson . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1996 . vii, 250 pp. $37.00 (paper). Distributed by Cellar Bookshop. Shallow Waters, Rising...

...Alfons van der Kraan Village Java Under the Cultivation System, 1830–70 . By R. E. Elson . Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1994 . xxiv, 522 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 622 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Village Java Under the Cultivation...

...Stephen A. Douglas Suharto: A Political Biography . By R. E. Elson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2001 . xix , 389 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 703 University Press, 1976], The Communist...

...], The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam [Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1996], and Ho Chi Mink A Life [New York: Hyperion, 2000 or the insightful and more balanced reportage of Bernard Fall on the 1950s and 1960s. GEORGE DUTTON University of California, Los Angeles Suharto: A Political Biography. By R. E. ELSON...

... (for Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam), 1978 . 112 pp. Tables, Diagrams, Bibliography. 28.50 f. The Cultivation System and “Agricultural Involution.” . By R. E. Elson . Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies (Working Paper No. 14), 1978 . 30 pp. Maps, Tables...

...Robert Van Niel The Politics of Colonial Exploitation: Java, the Dutch, and the Cultivation System . By Cornelis Fasseur . Translated from the Dutch by R. E. Elson and Ary Kraal . Edited by R. E. Elson. Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1992 . 266 pp...

...Mason C. Hoadley The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1800–1990s . By R. E. Elson . New York : St. Martin's Press in association with Australian National University , 1997 . xxvii, 335 pp. $75.00. Copyright ©...

...Hendrik Maier Moreover, it is regrettable that the treasures of the National Archives of Indonesia were inaccessible to Butcher and Elson; so careful and conscientious in their desire to use every form of relevant archives in the world, they must have been greatly frustrated...

... for advancement outside the village so that the peasants in 1870 were in a much better position than they had been fifty years earlier to act independently and without reference to the wishes of indigenous leaders" (p. 226). All this, however, does not mean that Elson's book is without flaws. For instance...

... of Java. The third publication in this review is a mimeographed working paper by a young Australian historian, R. E. Elson. This paper tests the main propositions advanced by Clifford Geertz in his book Agricultural Involution: The Process ofEcological Change in Indonesia (1963) against developments...

... 704 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES that detracts from the possible value of examining the more enduring and (perhaps) culturally grounded dynamics that culminate in institutional failure. This is not to say that Elson should have adopted a broader approach, so much as it is to reinforce my report...

... if controversial general studies appeared in the later 1990s, including Colin Brown's Economic Change in SouthEast Asia, c. 1830-1980 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) and Robert Elson's The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1899-1990s (New York: St...

... of Southeast Asia, perhaps for use in undergraduate courses. Few authors have attempted such a comprehensive treatment of the whole region, with the essays by Robert Elson and Norman Owen in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (Vol. 2) the obvious counterparts to Brown's project. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST...

...Donald Hindley Indonesia: Crisis and Transformation 1965–1968 . By Marshall Green . Washington, D.C. : The Compass Press , 1990 . xiv, 172 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 982 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES an important event. Robert Elson and Ary...

... portrayal of criminal violence in East Java over the course of the Indonesian revolution. In the book's only biographical entry, Robert Elson provides fascinating insights into former president Suharto. Wisely resisting the temptation 1006 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES to reduce everything to Javanese values...

... history of modern Southeast Asia has received increased attention from scholars. Several valuable if controversial general studies appeared in the later 1990s, including Colin Brown's Economic Change in SouthEast Asia, c. 1830-1980 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) and Robert Elson's The End...

...). The division is neither defended nor much followed. A few authors make sporadic attempts at fine-tuning, but these clash with each other (A. J. Stockwell's Cold War runs 1948-1957, C. M. Turnbull's 1948-1954) and even with the editor's broad scheme (Robert Elson establishes a beginning point in 1820, Reynaldo...

... in China. The focus of N ikolay K amenov’ s study is the centrality of cooperatives in the making of social, political, and economic histories of twentieth-century India. M atthew J. N elson 's article examines the intellectual influences from Ireland and India that shaped the writing of Pakistan's...

... materials available now. We will have to look to Robert Elson's soon-to-be-published book to provide the badly needed revisionist study of the Cultivation System as a whole. JOHN INGLESON University of New South Wales Macroeconomic Policies, Crises, and Long-Term Growth in Indonesia, 1965-90. By W I N G...