Minahasa: Overseas Trade and Economic Growth, 1720‒1820

Minahasa: Overseas Trade and Economic Growth, 1720‒1820

The eighteenth century remains a mysterious period in the history of Minahasa. It has often been treated as a rather uneventful interlude between the foundation of Dutch power in the seventeenth century, and the dramatic and well-known colonial transformations of the nineteenth, beginning with the T...

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Autor principal: Henley, David
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Archipel 2025
Assuntos:
Indonésie
Sulawesi
Minahasa
économie
commerce
XVIIIe siècle
XIXe siècle
trade
Indonesia
economy
18th century
19th century
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:archipel_7369 https://doi.org/10.4000/144x3 urn:doi:10.4000/144x3 en https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/7369 2025-06-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/144x3 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Minahasa: Overseas Trade and Economic Growth, 1720‒1820 Archipel Association Archipel info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2104-3655 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0044-8613 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/archipel Henley, David Indonésie Sulawesi Minahasa économie commerce XVIIIe siècle XIXe siècle trade Indonesia Sulawesi Minahasa economy 18th century 19th century The eighteenth century remains a mysterious period in the history of Minahasa. It has often been treated as a rather uneventful interlude between the foundation of Dutch power in the seventeenth century, and the dramatic and well-known colonial transformations of the nineteenth, beginning with the Tondano War of 1808-1809 and the imposition of compulsory coffee cultivation in 1822. This article brings together material from existing research, both published and unpublished, and from some previously unused primary sources, to sketch a picture of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth as a period of change and dynamism in the economic sphere. Exports (mostly of rice) and imports (of foreign prestige goods that also served as media of exchange in internal commerce) increased approximately fourfold, and in the 1770s and 1780s private commerce came to eclipse the official trade of the VOC. By the early nineteenth century, Minahasa was a prosperous region with a substantially commercialized economy. Its population was also much larger than it had been in 1700, a development that was almost certainly related to the long economic boom. The portrait of that boom given here may perhaps serve to facilitate identification and explanation of social and cultural changes which also took place during the same period, and which may up to now have been underestimated. Le XVIIIe siècle demeure une période mystérieuse dans lʼhistoire de Minahasa. Il a souvent été considéré comme une parenthèse plutôt calme entre lʼétablissement du pouvoir néerlandais au xviie siècle et les transformations coloniales spectaculaires et bien connues du xixe siècle, à commencer par la guerre de Tondano (1808-1809) et lʼimposition de la culture obligatoire du café en 1822. Cet article rassemble des données issues de recherches existantes, publiées et inédites, ainsi que des sources primaires inédites, afin de brosser un tableau du xviiie et du début du xixe siècles, marqués par des changements et un dynamisme économique marqués. Les exportations (principalement de riz) et les importations (de biens étrangers de prestige, qui servaient également de monnaie dʼéchange dans le commerce intérieur) ont été multipliées par quatre environ et, dans les années 1770 et 1780, le commerce privé a éclipsé le commerce officiel de la VOC. Au début du xixe siècle, Minahasa était une région prospère dotée dʼune économie largement tournée vers le commerce. Sa population était également bien plus nombreuse quʼen 1700, une évolution très certainement liée à la longue période de prospérité économique. Le portrait de cette prospérité dressé ici pourrait faciliter lʼidentification et lʼexplication des changements sociaux et culturels survenus à la même période et peut-être sous-estimés jusqu’à présent.
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topic Indonésie
Sulawesi
Minahasa
économie
commerce
XVIIIe siècle
XIXe siècle
trade
Indonesia
Sulawesi
Minahasa
economy
18th century
19th century
spellingShingle Indonésie
Sulawesi
Minahasa
économie
commerce
XVIIIe siècle
XIXe siècle
trade
Indonesia
Sulawesi
Minahasa
economy
18th century
19th century
Henley, David
Minahasa: Overseas Trade and Economic Growth, 1720‒1820
description The eighteenth century remains a mysterious period in the history of Minahasa. It has often been treated as a rather uneventful interlude between the foundation of Dutch power in the seventeenth century, and the dramatic and well-known colonial transformations of the nineteenth, beginning with the Tondano War of 1808-1809 and the imposition of compulsory coffee cultivation in 1822. This article brings together material from existing research, both published and unpublished, and from some previously unused primary sources, to sketch a picture of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth as a period of change and dynamism in the economic sphere. Exports (mostly of rice) and imports (of foreign prestige goods that also served as media of exchange in internal commerce) increased approximately fourfold, and in the 1770s and 1780s private commerce came to eclipse the official trade of the VOC. By the early nineteenth century, Minahasa was a prosperous region with a substantially commercialized economy. Its population was also much larger than it had been in 1700, a development that was almost certainly related to the long economic boom. The portrait of that boom given here may perhaps serve to facilitate identification and explanation of social and cultural changes which also took place during the same period, and which may up to now have been underestimated.
author Henley, David
author_facet Henley, David
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title Minahasa: Overseas Trade and Economic Growth, 1720‒1820
title_short Minahasa: Overseas Trade and Economic Growth, 1720‒1820
title_full Minahasa: Overseas Trade and Economic Growth, 1720‒1820
title_fullStr Minahasa: Overseas Trade and Economic Growth, 1720‒1820
title_full_unstemmed Minahasa: Overseas Trade and Economic Growth, 1720‒1820
title_sort minahasa: overseas trade and economic growth, 1720‒1820
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