Siegfried Huigen

Gebundenes Buch

Shaping a Dutch East Indies

Beschreibung

Shaping a Dutch East Indies discusses the construction of knowledge in Francois Valentyn's multi-volume account of the trading empire of the Dutch East India Company from 1724-1726, and the foundational role it played in Dutch perceptions of the East Indies as an imperial space for more than a hundred years after its publication.

Autor

Siegfried Huigen is professor of Dutch Literature at Wroclaw University (Poland) and visiting professor of Dutch Literature and Cultural History at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He has published extensively on the history of colonial knowledge in Asia, Southern Africa and East Central Europe. He recently published East Central Europe between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century (2023) with Palgrave as co-editor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9789004524989
• ISBN-10: 9004524983
• Artikelnr.: 67140830