Shaping a Dutch East Indies : : François Valentyn's VOC Empire.
"In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company's empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn comp...
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| Superior document: | Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Series ; v.315 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Describing imperial space
- Lobbying for a Bible translation in 'low' Malay
- The Valentyn case : scholarly authorship at the beginning of the eighteenth century
- Natural history for liefhebbers in Valentyn's description of animals from Amboina
- 'Dutch power in those territories' : historical representation in Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën
- Antiquarian ambonese : Valentyn's comparative ethnography and ethnology
- 'This business of our nation' : the questionable conduct of the Dutch in Japan
- 'Waste land' into 'earthly paradise' : the geography of the Cape of Good Hope
- A paper empire : Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën as a reference work.