Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000 Volume 106

by Howard W. Dick

Surabaya is Indonesia's second largest city but is not well known to the outside world. Yet in 1900, Surabaya was a bigger city than Jakarta and one of the main commercial centers of Asia. Collapse of sugar exports during the 1930s depression, followed by the Japanese occupation, revolution, and independence, brought on a long period of stagnation and retreat from the international economy. Not until the export boom of the 1990s did Surabaya regain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896802213
• ISBN13: 9780896802216
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.4"