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Perhaps Piet Creutzberg is and essentially always has been an artisan and an admirer of the best in craftmanship. The emphasis on the practical side of things seems to pervade whatever he undertook during half a century. Anyway, it is as a trader of the historical craft - wielding a Chinese abacus or an electronic computing devic- that, from about 1965 onwards, an increasing number of younger students of Indonesian social, economic and political history have met him in the depot of the 20th century colonial archives in The Hague or at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. Of the scores of Dutch, Indonesian, British, Scandinavian, German, American, Australian and Japanese historians he inspired and advised some were writing a master's thesis, others had already made part of their academic career in Indonesian history or related topics, but most of them were in the critical phases of collecting published or archival materials with a view to their incorporation in doctoral dissertations.
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Piet Creutzberg: from ethical economics to economic history.- Early outside influences.- De oudste Indonesische maiscultuur.- Trojan horse of lead: the picis in early 17th century Java.- The ritual lancing of Durga's Buffalo in Surakarta and the offering in the Krendowahono forest of its blood.- Economic trends and the interwar years.- Het vervoer via de spoorlijn Sernarang-Vorstenlanden als welvaartsindicator voor de bevolking in Java's Vorstenlanden (1874-1883).- The economic structure of an outpost in the outer islands in the Indonesian archipelago: Portuguese Timor 1850-1975.- De ontwikkeling van Semarang als koloniale uitvoerhaven van Midden-Java sinds 1900 en zijn tegenwoordige betekenis.- De copra-olieindustrie in Nederlands-Indië gedurcnde en kort na de Eerstc Wereldoorlog (1914-1921).- Crisis en financieel beleid in Nederlandsch-Indië (1920-1925).- Het bestedingspakket van de 'inheemse' bevolking op Java (1921-1939).- A note on the history of the textile industry in West Sumatra.- De depreciatie van de Nederlandsch-Indische gulden in 1936.- Colonial administration and its reactions.- De kontroleur G.K. Baron van Hogendorp (1844-1879): een enthousiast statisticus.- Association in theory and practice: the composition of the regency council (ca. 1910-1920).- Cane-burning in the Pasuruan area: an expression of social discontent.- The Bengkalis hunger riots of 1935.- The collapse of Java's colonial sugar system and the breakdown of independent Indonesia's economy.- Een wissel op de toekomst: de rede van Koningin Wilhelmina van 6/7 december 1942.- Perspectives in historiography.- De plaats van de biografie in de koloniale geschiedenis. Van der Wijck bijvoorbeeld.- 'Changing Economy' en Bataviaasch Genootschap: de 40-jarige voorgeschiedenis van eenpublicatie.- The study of economic history in Indonesia.- Notes on the contributors.
