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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on October 24, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(4):821-822; doi:10.1093/es/khl066
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Gerrit Knaap and Heather Sutherland. Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Makassar. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. xi + 269 pp. ISBN 90-6718-232-X, $30.00 (paper).

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Although falling somewhat short of the swashbuckling promise of its title, this is an engrossing specialist monograph of exceptional detail and thoroughness. Its appeal will be strongest to students of Indonesia, Dutch mercantile colonialism, and eighteenth-century Asian shipping and maritime studies in general. Similarly impressed will be statisticians, as various insightful quantitative analyses are at the heart of an intellectual exercise at times more impressive for its methodological than for its conceptual turns. Hard going though this might be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Pegram Harrison

Regent’s College, London


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