Narrow Gauge in the Tropics

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The Dutch or Netherlands East Indies
2. The First Railway on Java
3. The Choice of the Most Suitable Railway Gauge for the East Indies
4. State or Private Railways?
5. The Early State Railways
6. Slowing Down and Reorganization
7. Railways of Sumatra
8. Sumatra's Other Railways
9. The Coming of the Steam Tram
10. Toward a New Prosperity
11. The Private Companies until 1914
12. World War One and Its Golden Aftermath
13. Travel in the Tropics-Electrification
14. The Non-Public Railways
15. Worldwide Depression and Slow Recovery
16. Epilogue
Maps
Gazetteer
Abbreviations
Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

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• Fotografia e fotógrafos
• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000
• Combóios e caminhos de ferro: interesse geral
• História da Ásia
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900

history of Indonesian archipelago; Dutch colonialism; early transportation; tropics; railroads and economic growth; unification of Indonesia; trains