Sources 1796-1949

Sources 1796-1949
Author: Frits G.P. Jaquet
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2011-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110970333

The Archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Local Institutions in Batavia (Jakarta)

The Archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Local Institutions in Batavia (Jakarta)
Author: Louisa Balk
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2007-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047421795

The VOC (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company) was the largest of the early modern European trading companies operating in Asia. Its operations produced not only warehouses packed with spices, coffee, tea, textiles, porcelain and silk, but also shiploads of documents. Data on political, economic, cultural, religious, and social conditions spread over an enormous area circulated between the VOC establishments, the administrative centre of the trade in Batavia, now the city of Jakarta, and the Board of Directors in the Netherlands. The co-operation between the National Archives of Indonesia and the Netherlands resulted in this extensive catalogue of fifteen archives of VOC institutions in Jakarta. The VOC records are included in UNESCO ́s Memory of the World Register.

Dutch Sources on South Asia, C. 1600-1825: Bibiliography and archival guide to the National Archives at the Haque (The Netherlands)

Dutch Sources on South Asia, C. 1600-1825: Bibiliography and archival guide to the National Archives at the Haque (The Netherlands)
Author: Jos J. L. Gommans
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2001
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

This volume is a comprehensive companion to the use of the rich archival resources of Dutch East India Company (VOC) as well as other, related collections at the National Archives in The Hague. Apart from detailed inventories, it includes concise historical and historiographical introductions, various regional maps, and an extensive bibliography relating to two centuries of intensive Dutch involvement with the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka.

Chinese Studies in the Netherlands

Chinese Studies in the Netherlands
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2013-12-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9004263128

The Netherlands have a long and proud history in Chinese studies. This volume collects not only articles that trace the historical development of Chinese studies in the Netherlands from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present and beyond, but also studies that deal with Dutch research in specific disciplines within Chinese studies. Chinese studies in the Netherlands originated from the needs of the Dutch colonial administration in the Dutch East Indies, but developed a strong philological emphasis in the first part of the twentieth century, to turn increasingly towards disciplinary research on modern and contemporary China in the last few decades. Contributors include Leonard Blussé, Maghiel van Crevel, Barend ter Haar, Albert Hoffstädt, Wilt Idema, Mark Leenhouts, Oliver Moore, Frank Pieke and Rint Sybesma.

Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas

Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas
Author: Christina K. Schaefer
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 846
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806315768

Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.

Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800

Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800
Author: Yasuko Suzuki
Publisher: Apollo Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781920901516

In the early modern period, relations between the Netherlands and Japan were founded on trade. The Dutch United East India Company operated in Japan for over 100 years, from 1609 to the early 18th century. The Dutch-Japanese relationship - built sometimes on understanding and at other times on resentment - is recorded in great detail in the trade-related archives of the period. This book closely examines these documents to reveal the changing market conditions of the main commodities exported by the Dutch from Japan at the time: silver, koban (gold), copper, and camphor. This analysis of both Dutch and Japanese perspectives on the trade market forms an intricate picture of the cultural, political, and economic context of trade between the Netherlands and Japan in the early modern period. *** "...many useful tables and charts in this book, which economic historians of Japan and Asian trade networks will be able to use in the future." - Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 39:2, 2013

Twentieth Century China

Twentieth Century China
Author: James H. Cole
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 1492
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780765603951

Emphasizing reference works published since 1964, these volumes cover books, periodicals, and inclusions (i.e., chapters in edited volumes) on the 1911 Revolution, the Republic of China (1949--), post-1911 Taiwan, post-1911 Hong Kong and Macao, and post-1911 overseas Chinese.