Being "Dutch" in the Indies:

Being "Dutch" in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500-1920 Ulbe Bosma Primary Author Remco Raben Primary Author mixed material bibliography Singapore NUS Press 2008 monographic en English Being "Dutch" in the Indies portrays Dutch colonial territories in Asia not as mere societies under foreign occupation but rather as a Creole empire . Most of colonial society, up to the highest levels, consisted of people of mixed Dutch and Asian descent who were born in the Indies and considered it their home, but were legally Dutch. They played a major role in the plantation industry, commerce, local government and even early anti-colonial nationalism. The old world came to an end after World War I, when people born in Europe began to dominate government and business, and Indonesian nationalism rejected the Creole notion of imperial belonging. In telling the story of the Creole empire, the authors draw on government archives, newspapers and literary works as well as genealogical studies that follow the fortunes of individual families over several generations. They also critically analyse theories relating to culturally and racially mixed communities. The picture of the Indies they develop shatters conventional understandings of colonial rule in Asia. Ulbe Bosma is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Remco Raben is senior researcher in Asian history at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam and teaches history at Utrecht University. Wendie Shaffer has worked as a translator in the Netherlands since 1971, concentrating on historical studies. Indonesians - History NONE9789971693732 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 959.502 BOS Bei 8108 C2O library & collabtive (History & Geography) 959.802 BOS Bei being_dutch_in_the_indies_999.jpg.jpg 6741 2018-07-06 18:04:51 2018-07-06 18:04:51 machine generated