The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia by Jean Gelman Taylor

The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia

Jean Gelman Taylor

272 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In the seventeenth 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 n...

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