Clio, the muse of history. Detail from Jan Vermeer, The Art of Painting. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. See more.

•spring 08 course list
•undergraduate minor

• this week's colloquium
• department colloquia
• 2000 golden jubilee

•core faculty
•affiliates & associates
•graduate students
•staff

• graduate studies intro
• funding information
• graduate handbook
• dual MA/MLS degree

• mellon travel fellowships

• medieval commentators
• history of islamic science

• hsci collections
• related academic units

•history of science links
•dept. newsletters
•history of the dept.
•contact information
•college of arts and sciences
•ou homepage
•norman, ok

Select Publications

Technology and Ethical Idealism: A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies, Leiden:CNWS, 2007.
Press Release for this title

“The Emergence of Technological Development and the Question of Native Identity in the Netherlands East Indies,” The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 36(2005) 191-206.

“Development, Technology, and the Unique Economy of the Colony: the Dual Economy Thesis in Netherlands East Indies’ Development Policies, c. 1920,” in Science, Tropical Medicine, and Empire. Western Europe and the Colonial World Since 1800, Benedikt Stuchtey (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

“Empirical Knowledge, Colonial Authority, and Native Development: The Controversy over Sugar/Rice Ecology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1905-1914,” Environment and History, 10( 2004) 59-81.

“The Trouble with Mechanized Farming: Colonial Politics of Technological Change in the Netherlands East Indies c. 1920,” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 16(1999) 73-87.

“Takeoff or Self-Sufficiency: Ideologies of Development in Indonesia 1957-1961,” Technology and Culture, 39(1998) 187-212.