Mr Ghamal Satya Mohammad

The author of this book, Jan Breman, is a prominent Dutch sociologist and historian who has published a number of important and widely read works about colonial history, labor migration, poverty, and related socioeconomic issues in the Global South. The present book is an in-depth historical explanation of the connection between today’s problems of inequality and racism with Western (European) colonialism and imperialism in the past, with an emphasis on the Dutch expansion overseas...

What has made Island Southeast Asia, once a prosperous region in the world, into a source of unskilled workers? Was the ‘peripheralization’ of this region solely the product of the history of European colonialism? The author of the book under review, Ulbe Bosma, a reputable economic historian, invites the reader to discuss these thought-provoking questions by delving into current debates on relevant socio-economic theories and documents from various colonial archives, all in a compact 306 pages. The result is a noteworthy example of a comparative global history that is highly relevant in today’s context...