Ulbe Bosma, Ph.D (1995) is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and professor in international and comparative social history at VU University. He published five monographs, edited volumes and many articles on colonial history, plantations and migration. Forthcoming is his monograph, The Asian sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia: industrial production 1770-2020, to appear at Cambridge University Press in 2013.