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Staging Asia
The Dutch East India Company and the Amsterdam Theatre
Häftad, 2017
728 kr
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How is it possible that three playwrights in the early modern Dutch Republic wrote dramas based on contemporary political events in Asia? Reflecting on this remarkable phenomenon, Staging Asia traces the passage of the stories surrounding three political revolutions from seventeenth-century Asia …
Travels of Pieter Albert Bik
Writings from the Dutch Colonial World of the Early Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2017
685 kr
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Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) was a Dutch colonial official whose work took him all over the world, including travels throughout Europe, the Dutch East Indies, and Japan. This book presents for the first time in English his autobiographical writings about those travels, which Bik never published in …
Colonization of Freed African Americans in Suriname
Archival Sources Relating to the U.S.-Dutch Negotiations, 1860-1866
Häftad, 2019
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During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln's administration engaged in protracted negotiations with representatives of the Netherlands to aid in the voluntarily colonization of free African Americans to Suriname. Scores of diplomatic letters in Dutch, English, and French, dating to …
Company Fortress
Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795
Av Erik Odegard
Häftad, 2020
785 kr
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The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early Modern European expansion? The Company Fortress takes on this question by studying the system of …
Heirs of Vijayanagara
Av Lennart Bes
Häftad, 2022
944 kr
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"This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the s outh Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this …
Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka
Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society
Häftad, 2023
785 kr
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Navigating Pluralities marks a break in understanding the history of Roman-Dutch law in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, it challenges socio-legal studies that concentrate on major jurisdictional conflicts alone, emphasizing the lived experience of everyday practices of judicial forums. It uncovers the …
Open Door to Hidden Paganism
Abraham Rogerius's Account of South Indian Hinduism (1651): Critical Introduction, Dutch Text, and Annotated English Translation
Häftad, 2025
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This book presents the first-ever English translation of The Open Door to Hidden Paganism, one of the earliest and most detailed studies of South Indian Hinduism. Written in 1651 by Abraham Rogerius, a Dutch East India Company clergyman and missionary, it offers an unexpectedly balanced account of …
