The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia (New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies)

by R.Anderson Sutton (Series Editor), Thongchai Winichakul (Series Editor), Jean Gelman Taylor (Contributor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $36.57

  In the 17th century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus of the Dutch Asian Empire. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of Batavia's social world.