Java, How to Manage a Colony

The Dutch East Indies was one of the World’s wealthiest and most productive colonies in the 19th century. Many European countries observed how the colony was run, and tried to emulate it, in their own colonially controlled lands.

James William Bayley Money, landed on Java in the mid 19th Century, troubled by the problems the British Empire was facing in running its own colonies. He studied the colonial management system, and compared it to the one in the British Empire, finally writing “Java, how to manage a Colony.”

At the time, few writers compared the European colonies, and this valuable written work is essentially a guide on how colonial powers ruled over their expanding empires. .