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Indonesian Cuisine
Selamat Makan
Food and its preparation are an integral part of the lives of the Indonesian people. Cooking is a time of community and celebration, and recipes, techniques and traditions are hand...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
Four Years till Tomorrow
The surrender of the Japanese in South East Asia on August 15th, 1945 was for Dutch civilian camp internees only the beginning of yet another period of upheaval, hostilities and pe...
USD 22.95 / CAD 22.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol1 book1
Volume I: The Century of Discovery
The rise to world dominance and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the anc...
USD 49.95 / CAD 49.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol2 book1
Volume II: A Century of Wonder
In The Visual Arts, the author focuses specifically on the effect of the “silent sources” on European art. These sources are the Eastern art and artifacts, flora, fauna, and crafts...
USD 34.95 / CAD 34.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol2 book2
Volume II: A Century of Wonder
The Literary Arts surveys the Asian themes, influences, and echoes in the national literatures of Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and England. “These volu...
USD 34.95 / CAD 34.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol2 book3
Volume II: A Century of Wonder
The Scholarly Disciplines analyzes the fields where the revelation of Asia was most apparent: technology and the natural sciences, cartography and geography, the languages and lin...
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Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book1
Volume III: A Century of Advance
Trade, Missions, Literature deals with Christian missions and trade and conquest in the East. It examines the various histories, reports, letterbooks, and travelogues printed and w...
USD 43.95 / CAD 43.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book2
Volume III: A Century of Advance
South Asia examines the European images of the lands, societies, religions, and cultures of the Mughul Empire, Goa, Bijapur, Kanara, Malabar, Coromandel, and insular South Asia inc...
USD 38.95 / CAD 38.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book3
Volume III: A Century of Advance
Southeast Asia deals with European images of the lands, societies, religions, and cultures of Southeast Asia. The continental nations of Siam, Vietnam, Malaya, Pegu, Arakan, Cambo...
USD 38.50 / CAD 38.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book4
Volume III: A Century of Advance
East Asia reviews European images of China during the late Ming and early Ch’ing dynasties, ranging from its religious practises, customs, and intellectual life to its geography an...
USD 38.50 / CAD 38.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol1 book2
Volume I: A Century of Discovery
The rise to world dominance and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the anc...
USD 40.95 / CAD 40.95
Eight Prison Camps
A Dutch Family in Japanese Java
Eldest girl of eight children, the author was raised in a teacher’s family in Surakarta, Java, in what is now Indonesia. The family was split up when the Japanese imprisoned the fa...
USD 29.95 / CAD 29.95
Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca 1641-1795
New research among the very abundant records of the Dutch Company (its employees were referred to as Jan Compagnie) enriches our understanding of the effect of the Dutch presence ...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
Japanese Experience in Indonesia
Selected Memoirs of 1942-1948
The book uses excerpts from the memoirs of twelve Japanese involved in the occupation of the Dutch and focuses on events and policy issues important for the subsequent history of ...
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Adjustment and Discontent
Representations of Women in the Dutch
Far-reaching transformations took place in the colonial society of the Dutch around 1900. The number of Europeans in the Indies increased while Western education raised a politica...
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John Company
Toward the end of the sixteenth century, the Dutch were fighting to establish their independence from Spain, and overseas trading and colonial explorations were a vital part of tha...
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Faded Portraits
A fictionalized memoir of family life in the former colonial Dutch East Indies, the novel is the story of the once powerful De Paulys, and especially Aunt Sophie, the matriarch, wh...
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Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run’s harvest of nutmeg turned i...
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The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949
Survivors' accounts of the Japanese occupation and eyewitness stories of the ensuing struggle for an independent Indonesia. Unlike in the Netherlands, the liberators in the Japanes...
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Sabelis Symphony
Exploration is part of the inevitable process that dominates the work of artists. It takes on a much broader scope when this exploration involves more than one culture. It becomes ...
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Batavia's Graveyard
The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The ship itself wa...
USD 20.95 / CAD 20.95
American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies-Indonesia
U.S. Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism 1920-1949.U.S. Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism 1920-1949
The book challenges the view that during the period 1945-1949, the American government and its foreign policymakers unequivocally backed the Indonesian Republic's struggle for inde...
USD 42.95 / CAD 42.95
The Arabian Mission's Story
In Search of Abraham's Other Son
The book recounts the eighty-year-long history of the mission work of the Reformed Church in America (RCA) in the Middle East, written by a missionary who has spent decades in the ...
USD 42.95 / CAD 42.95
Decolonising the Caribbean
Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective
Much has been written on the post-WWII decolonization in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly comparative perspective, and seldom with serious attention to the former Dutch colon...
USD 43.95 / CAD 43.95
Duizend Dagen Indie
The editors of this book formatted the 1945-1948 diary of shock trooper Jan van Trigt, a resistance man who volunteered for the Dutch army following the liberation of the Netherlan...
USD 36.95 / CAD 36.95
Visions of Savage Paradise
Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil, 1637-1644
This book is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to colonia...
USD 71.50 / CAD 71.50
Laatste Bericht
Ereveld van Indië en Nieuw-Guinea, Opgedragen aan ruim 5300 slachtoffers
Literally, a bound Monument to the Fallen of the Dutch East Indies (1945-1962). The post-WWII armed conflict in the Dutch East Indies with the independence movement, in many ways a...
USD 69.50 / CAD 69.50
Indonesian Dictionary & Phrase Book
This handy, 3,000-essential Indonesian words reference book can open the door to communicating with the 200 million people who live in the South Pacific archipelago country of Indo...
USD 13.95 / CAD 13.95
A Long Way
From the cold, harsh waters of Northern Europe to the tropical islands of the Dutch East Indies, the author in his novel captures the visual and spiritual dynamics of these two wor...
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Ship's Surgeons of the Dutch East India Company
Commerce and the Progress of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century
During the eighteenth century, the surgeons of ships employed by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) were responsible not only for the health of sailors on board, but also of those ...
USD 39.95 / CAD 39.95
Feasts of Honor
Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands
Among the Toraja of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, mortuary rituals are exotic spectacles. Bellowing water buffalo and squealing pigs for sacrifice, colourful displays of ritual arc...
USD 22.95 / CAD 22.95
New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 8
This installment of the author’s insider history of the U.S. Navy covers five of the most eventful months of the Pacific war, from March through July 1944. Filled with spectacular ...
USD 9.95 / CAD 9.95
The Social World of Batavia
Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia, Second Edition
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Java site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the n...
USD 29.95 / CAD 29.95
Silenced Voices
Uncovering a Family’s Colonial History in Indonesia
Like a number of Netherlanders in the post–World War II era, Inez Hollander only gradually became aware of her family’s connections with its Dutch colonial past, including a Creole...
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Tjideng Reunion
When WWII broke out in Europe and the Nazis occupied their homeland, two Dutch families living in South Africa moved to the Netherlands East Indies to contribute to the defense of ...
USD 34.95 / CAD 34.95
Het Indie Boek
Few people will know this, but a public request in 1872 by a Haarlem-museum for photographs of life in the Dutch East Indies, is the basis of a 150,000 entries image bank on the fo...
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Bittersweet
The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century
Millions of Chinese have left the mainland over the last two centuries in search of new beginnings. The majority went to Southeast Asian countries. The single largest destination w...
USD 28.95 / CAD 28.95
The Windmill Herald - 1012 Back Copies Set
Following the announcement of The Windmill Herald’s exit, an interest has emerged in back issues. A set of 12 issues published in 2012, includes the Farewell Issue and the Dutch He...
USD 30.00 / CAD 30.00
The Windmill Herald - Archive Copies
The colourful centre pages spreads on Dutch history themes remain popular with many subscribers, their family, friends and even neighbours. A volume of 34 issues (covering 17 month...
USD 99.95 / CAD 99.95
Memoirs of an Indo Woman
Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad
This book provides an overview of practically the whole of the twentieth century as experienced by persons of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry who called the former Dutch East I...
USD 32.95 / CAD 32.95