Fertility, Food and Fever: Population, Economy and Environment in North and Central Sulawesi, 1600-1930Combining historical geography with historical demography, and conceived as a study in environmental history, this book examines the long-term relationship between population, economy and environment in the northern half of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Using a rich variety of Dutch historical sources, including VOC and missionary archives, it attempts to reconstruct and analyse patterns of demographic, economic and landscape change throughout this large and ecologically diverse region over a period of almost three and a half centuries. Particular attention is given to the articulation between demographic and economic growth, to levels and determinants of reproductive fertility, to changing disease environments, and to the question of agricultural sustainability and its preconditions. The results call into question some common views regarding the reasons for low population growth, and the relationship between population density and landscape change, in the Southeast Asian past. |
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A.C. Kruyt Adriani and Kruyt agriculture ANRI Gorontalo ANRI Manado 51 ANRI Ternate Banggai Bolaang Mongondow Boomgaard Bugis Buol Celebes Central Sulawesi Chapter church registers Clercq coast coastal coconut colonial contemporary inspection crops cultivation deforestation Delden demographic disease Dutch Dutch administrative count epidemic estimate European export fertility forest Graafland 1898 grassland Greater Sangir Gulf of Tomini Hoëvell included indigenous Indonesia inhabitants irrigation island Jansen Java km² Koloniaal verslag labour Lake Poso land Limboto Luwuk maize malaria Minahasa missionary Moluccas Mori mortality MV Manado negeri distinguished nineteenth century North Sulawesi northern Sulawesi Padtbrugge Palu Valley percent period population growth raja region reported resident of Manado rice Riedel sago Sangir Islands settlements Siau Siau Island single undivided figure slaves smallpox sources Steller swidden Talaud Islands Tammes Ternate Tillema tion Tobungku Togian Islands Tolitoli Tondano Toraja trade twentieth century upland village Volkstelling weerbare mannen western Central Sulawesi Wilken and Schwarz