liveries of crops that relied heavily on cooperation from agreeable Javanese aristocrats
             - Dutch interference in Mataram's affairs led to the kingdom's division in 1755. In the Moluccas, the Dutch extended their trading rights into political control. Elsewhere in the eastern islands, most local rulers retained their internal autonomy but were drawn into special relationships with the Dutch
             - Britain occupied Java briefly during the Napoleonic Wars
             - Both the British and later the Dutch tried to centralize and reform Java's administration
             - The Dutch wavered between opening the area to individual enterprise and reverting to a monop
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