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This book, based on VOC (Dutch East Indies Company) archives and traditional Malay texts, examines the rise of a Malay state in the early modern era. It focuses on the ecological frontier of eastern Sumatra, with its multi-ethnic communities, and how they were able to transform themselves, in ...
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This book examines the development of Indonesian nationalism from the viewpoint of a minority: the urban Christian elite. Placed between the Indonesian nationalist promise of freedom and the (equally Christian) Dutch colonial promise of modernity, their experience of late colonialism was filled ...
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This first of two volumes documents the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Indonesia from 1808, when, after two centuries, priests were again allowed in the Dutch colony, until 1903, when the the number of Catholics, only 27,000 at the time, started to grow spectacularly. The story of slow ...
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De wereldgeschiedenis wordt wel beschreven als een lange aaneenschakeling van gewelddadigheden. Bezien vanuit deze eenzijdige invalshoek vormt de Nederlandse koloniale geschiedenis bepaald geen uitzondering. Onthutst verhaalden de eerste ontdekkingsreizigers en kolonisten over de gewelddadige ...