Wives, Slaves, and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia by Eric Jones

Wives, Slaves, and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia

Eric Jones

186 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Wives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divisions in Batavia-Jakarta, modern-day Indonesia, to deal with difficult realities in Southeast Asia. Jones uses compelling stori...

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