 Two of the spices that most interested the Dutch East India Company were nutmeg, the seed of the nutmeg tree, and mace, the red covering of the nut; photo credit Yogita Mehra | ||
Technically the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company, (VOC) existed from 1602-1798. After the company was dissolved, the area that it had controlled became the Dutch East Indies, directly administered by the Dutch government.  VOC Links:
Multatuli was the pen name of Eduard Dekker (1820-1887), a minor official in the Dutch East Indies, who published the novel Max Havelaar (1862) to expose the corruption and exploitation of the Dutch colonial regime in the East Indies.  Monument to Multatuli on the Torensteeg Bridge over the Singel Canal in Amsterdam. Photo credit wikimedia commons Multatuli Links
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In this project, we are working to develop a website that focuses on the Dutch colonial world and decolonization process in Indonesia through the pen of Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006). His “Buru Quartet,” published in the 1980s, was a devastating critique of Dutch colonial mastery of Indonesian society. Our website will publish background materials that will make Toer’s works accessible for students in our western and world history survey courses and also our world literature courses.
