LINKING DESTINIES -- LINKING DESTINIES -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- PETER BOOMGAARD and HENK SCHULTE NORDHOLT -- Connecting people, places andcommodities -- PETER BOOMGAARD -- Early globalization Cowries as currency, 600 BCE-1900 -- WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL -- The Asianization of indigo Rapid change in a global trade around 1800 -- OSCAR SALEMINK -- Trading goods, prestige and power A revisionist history of Lowlander-Highlander relations in Vietnam -- I GDE PARIMARTHA -- Contextualizing trade in East Nusa Tenggara, 1600-1800 -- GERRIT KNAAP -- Maritime trade in small-town Java around 1775 The cases of Tegal and Pekalongan -- ALEXANDER CLAVER -- Struggling for justice Chinese commerce and Dutch law in the Netherlands Indies, 1800-1942 -- REMCO RABEN -- Cities and the slave trade in early-modern Southeast Asia -- PETER KEPPY -- Keroncong, concours and crooners Home grown entertainment in early twentieth-century Batavia -- FREEK COLOMBIJN -- Kampong improvement in colonial Indonesia A contest on paper and in the field -- ELSBETH LOCHER-SCHOLTEN -- Family is where one starts from Exploring family history in the historiography of colonial Indonesia -- KWEE HUI KIAN -- Cultural strategies, economic dominance The lineage of Tan Bing in nineteenth-century Semarang, Java -- SONG PING -- Traditional lineages in transnational spaces -- WU XIAO AN -- Family divided, property disputed The collapse of a wealthy Nanyang Chinese patriarch -- About the authors -- DICK KOOIMAN -- Short biography of Heather Sutherland -- Inge M. Tromp -- Bibliography of Heather Sutherland.