Research Catalog

Title

Technology and ethical idealism : a history of development in the Netherlands East Indies / Suzanne Moon.

Author

Moon, Suzanne, 1962-

Publication

Leiden : CNWS Publications, 2007.

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Description

viii, 186 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Studies in overseas history ; 9
• CNWS publications ; no. 156

Uniform Title

• Studies in overseas history 9.
• CNWS publications no. 156.

Subject

• Geschichte 1900-1942
• 1798-1942
• Technology > Social aspects > Indonesia
• Economic development > Indonesia
• Indonesia > History > 1798-1942
• Indonesia > Economic conditions
• Netherlands > Colonies > Indonesia

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-179) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: 1 "Promoting Improvement and Advantage": Social Welfare and the Emergence of -- Technological Development 9 -- 2 Creating a Department of Agriculture: Science, Technology, and Ethical Ideals 25 -- 3 Ethical Idealism in Practice: Technologies of Development and the Small Farmer 44 -- 4 Challenging the Small-Farmer Ideal: The Sugar Industry and the Controversy -- over Mechanized Agriculture 70 -- 5 "Here We Live in All Centuries at Once": The Limits of Ethical Idealism 92 -- 6 Technological Development and Ethical Idealism in a Post-Ethical Society 109 -- 7 The Legacy of Ethical Thinking during the Depression: Technology's Place in the -- New Social Welfare 125.

ISBN

• 9789057891564 (pbk.)
• 9057891565 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 213260043
• SCSB-12772055

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library