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  1. Slavery and Labour Contracts: Rethinking Their Nexus

    Article • International Review of Social History, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  2. Transportation, Deportation and Exile: Perspectives from the Colonies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Article • International Review of Social History, June 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Christian De Vito, Professor Ulbe Bosma

  3. Military Migrants: Luxembourgers in the Colonial Army of the Dutch East Indies

    Article • Itinerario, December 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  4. Sven Beckert. Empire of Cotton. A Global History. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2015. xxii, 615 pp. Ill. $35.00. (Paper: $18.95.)

    Article • International Review of Social History, December 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  5. Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750

    Article • October 2015, Nature

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  6. Promises and Predicaments: Trade and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Independent Indonesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries

    Article • Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  7. Smallpox, Vaccinations, and Demographic Divergences in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Indonesia

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 2015, Brill

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  8. Commodities and Colonialism: The Story of Big Sugar in Indonesia, 1880–1942. By G. Roger Knight. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2013. xi + 291 pp. Photographs, map, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $146.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-25051-2.

    Article • The Business History Review, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  9. Migration and Colonial Enterprise in Nineteenth Century Java

    Article • January 2014, Brill

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  10. Reciprocal Comparisons and the Domains beyond Imperial Control

    Article • Ab Imperio, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  11. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not

    Article • International Review of Social History, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  12. Gerard Termorshuizen mmv Anneke Scholte, Realisten en reactionairen. Een geschiedenis van de Indisch-Nederlandse pers, 1905-1942; Gerard Termorshuizen (ed.), Tropenstijl. Amusement en verstrooiing in de (post)koloniale pers

    Article • BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, October 2013, Uopen Journals

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  13. Turning Javanese: The Domination of Cuba's Sugar Industry by Java Cane Varieties

    Article • Itinerario, August 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  14. Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective

    Article • July 2013, Brill

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  15. Anderson Clare. Subaltern Lives. Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920. [Critical Perspectives on Empire.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2012. x, 219 pp. Ill. Maps. £55.00; $99.00. (Paper: £19.99; $32.99.)

    Article • International Review of Social History, July 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  16. European imperialism and migration to Asia

    Article • February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  17. The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia

    Article • January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  18. Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective: An Introduction

    Article • January 2013, Brill

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  19. Dutch Imperial Anxieties about Free Labour, Penal Sanctions and the Right to Strike

    Article • January 2013, Brill

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  20. Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics: Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in comparison ed. by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen, Gert Osstindie

    Article • Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  21. Mediating Labour: An Introduction CORRIGENDUM

    Article • International Review of Social History, November 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  22. Mediating Labour: An Introduction

    Article • International Review of Social History, August 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  23. Working on Labor

    Article • August 2012, Brill

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  24. Cane Sugar and Unlimited Supplies of Labor in the 1930s: New Thinking and the Origin of Development Economics

    Article • January 2012, Brill

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  25. Two Islands, One Commodity: Cuba, Java, and the Global Sugar Trade (1790-1930)

    Article • New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, January 2012, Brill

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  26. Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben (2008) Being “Dutch” in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500–1920. Singapore: NUS Press. [Translated from the Dutch by Wendie Shaffer]. Xx+439 pp. ISBN: 9789971693732

    Article • Asian Journal of Social Science, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  27. Multiculturalism and Settlement: The Case of Dutch Postcolonial Migrant Organisations

    Article • Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l integration et de la migration internationale, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  28. The Discourse On Free Labor And The Forced Cultivation System: The Contradictory Consequences Of The Abolition Of The Slave Trade In Colonial Java, 1811-1870

    Article • January 2011, Brill

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  29. Kathleen Mapes. Sweet Tyranny. Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics. [The Working Class in American History.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana [etc.] 2009. xi, 307 pp. Ill. $80.00. (Paper: $30.00.)

    Article • International Review of Social History, December 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  30. Moon-Ho Jung. Coolies and Cane. Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2006. x, 275 pp. Ill. $25.00

    Article • International Review of Social History, November 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  31. European colonial soldiers in the nineteenth century: their role in white global migration and patterns of colonial settlement*

    Article • Journal of Global History, June 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  32. Being “Dutch” in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500–1920. By Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press; Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xx, 439 pp. $28.00 (paper).

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  33. Sailing through Suez from the South: The Emergence of an Indies-Dutch Migration Circuit, 1815–1940

    Article • International Migration Review, June 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  34. The Cultivation System (1830–1870) and its private entrepreneurs on colonial Java

    Article • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, May 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  35. Beyond the Atlantic: Connecting Migration and World History in the Age of Imperialism, 1840–1940

    Article • International Review of Social History, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  36. Citizens of Empire: Some Comparative Observations on the Evolution of Creole Nationalism in Colonial Indonesia

    Article • Comparative Studies in Society and History, October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  37. Global Factory and Local Field: Convergence and Divergence in the International Cane-Sugar Industry, 18501940

    Article • International Review of Social History, April 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  38. The Politics of Labour in the British Caribbean: The Social Origins of Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Labour Movement. By BOLLAND, O. NIGEL. Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston; James Curry, Oxford; Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton 2001. xxii, 69...

    Article • International Review of Social History, November 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  39. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India. The Bengal Jute Industry. By SEN, SAMITA. [Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, vol. 3.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 1999. xx, 265 pp. £35.00; $59.95.

    Article • International Review of Social History, August 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  40. Introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  41. Conclusion

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  42. Glossary

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  43. Archives

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  44. Bibliography

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  45. Producing Sugar for the World

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  46. Escaping the Plantation?

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  47. Weights and Measures

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  48. East Indian Sugar versus Slave Sugar

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  49. Java: From Cultivation System to Plantation Conglomerate

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  50. Sugar, Science, and Technology: Java and India in the Late Nineteenth Century

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  51. The Era of the Global Sugar Market, 1890–1929

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  52. Notes on the Costs of Producing and Shipping Sugar to European Markets

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma

  53. Notes on Labor Input in Sugar Production in India between 1850 and 1930

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ulbe Bosma