Transcript Colonial Economic and Social Transformation Part 1

COLONIAL
ECONOMIC
& SOCIAL
TRANSFORMATIONS
A. Shift from Trade to Rule –
Nineteenth Century
(Industrial Rev. & “free
trade”)
1. Decline of “Royal” companies
a. Spanish galleon trade ends
in the 1820s
b. The Dutch VOC bankrupt
in 1800
c. 1813 British Parliament
abolishes East India
Company’s trade monopoly
2. Government in service to new
business ventures
a. tobacco in the Philippines +
experiments with coffee,
indigo, cotton, etc.
b. Cultivation System in Java
– forced agricultural export
c. England’s post-1826 attempt to
organize Malay peninsula’s
interior Sultanates