De-Industrialisation and Colonial Rule: The Cotton Textile Industry in Indonesia: 1820-1942

De-Industrialisation and Colonial Rule: The Cotton Textile Industry in Indonesia: 1820-1942- Paper presented at the 2006 Helsinki XIV International Economic History Congress, assessing the thesis that the de-industrialising impact of colonial rule explains the near-absence of a cotton textile industry in colonial Indonesia. Author: Pierre van der Eng.