Gerrit Knaap

Based upon a sweeping command of Dutch East India Company (VOC) primary sources, Knaap’s manuscript offers a thought-provoking thematic examination and chronological survey of the Dutch Republic’s overseas and colonial expansion in Asia and South Africa, mainly through the VOC and its successors, the Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland and Franco-Dutch Java, over a period of more than two centuries, 1596-1811. It elucidates and deals with several conceptual and theoretical issues that are intrinsically important and germane to a polity’s definition of and how it chooses to execute the process of expansion overseas in the early modern period. One of this work’s major arguments and contributions is its advocacy that the Dutch VOC’s expansion in Asia was an imperial project and must be seen as an act of empire, or, at the very minimum, the attempt to construct one via the innovative utilization of a highly organized and dynamic commercial institution with significant political and diplomatic power and naval and military resources.

Linking the worlds of community development, higher education administration, and urban design, this accessible guidebook offers useful information on how universities and communities can best develop partnership projects. Its focus on smart growth projects further enhances its value for those interested in how urban, suburban, and rural growth can be accommodated while preserving open spaces and quality of life. Partnerships for Smart Growth includes 13 case studies for university-community collaborations on smart growth initiatives. The chapters include geographically diverse locations and urban, suburban, and rural projects. Each case includes a comprehensive discussion of how and why the project was initiated, who was involved, what techniques were employed, what were the pitfalls, and what was the outcome. The result is a book with wide appeal for university administrators, land-use planners and administrators, scholars, and community development experts.

Linking the worlds of community development, higher education administration, and urban design, this accessible guidebook offers useful information on how universities and communities can best develop partnership projects. Its focus on smart growth projects further enhances its value for those interested in how urban, suburban, and rural growth can be accommodated while preserving open spaces and quality of life. Partnerships for Smart Growth includes 13 case studies for university-community collaborations on smart growth initiatives. The chapters include geographically diverse locations and urban, suburban, and rural projects. Each case includes a comprehensive discussion of how and why the project was initiated, who was involved, what techniques were employed, what were the pitfalls, and what was the outcome. The result is a book with wide appeal for university administrators, land-use planners and administrators, scholars, and community development experts.

Veel historici hebben er de laatste decennia op gewezen dat de gedachte van 350 jaar Nederlandse overheersing over Indonesi een mythe is. De verovering was een geleidelijk proces en pas na 1900 deed het koloniaal gezag zich in bijna alle uithoeken gelden. Het gebied dat echter nog het dichtste in de buurt van die 350 jaar komt, is het gewest Ambon, dat reeds in 1605 door de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) werd bezet. Het VOC-bestuur over Ambon is over het algemeen gekenschetst als een niets ontziende uitbuiting van de bevolking door middel van een met geweld afgedwongen monopolie in de kruidnagelhandel. Dit boek beoogt, op basis van literatuur en originele archiefstukken, na te gaan wat de interventie van de VOC in werkelijkheid betekende. De nadruk ligt daarbij op de tweede helft van de zeventiende eeuw, toen de kruitdampen waren opgetrokken en het gezag van de VOC stevig was gevestigd. Door een gedetailleerde reconstructie en analyse van de diverse terreinen van het maatschappelijk leven in socio-politiek, religieus, demografisch en economisch opzicht wordt een zo nauwkeurig mogelijk beeld geschetst van de invloed van de VOC. Niet alleen de kruidnagelen waren voor de VOC belangrijk; ook de godsdienst, de herendiensten en een ordelijk bestuur hadden de aandacht. De rol van de kruidnagel en het monopolie wordt niet, zoals in veel eerdere literatuur, in het perspectief van een markteconomie behandeld, maar in dat van een op zelfvoorziening gerichte economische orde. Dit boek is niet alleen van belang voor de kennis van de relatie Ambon-VOC, maar gaat ook uitgebreid in op de interne structuur en ontwikkelingsgang van de Ambonse samenleving.

In the historiography of Southeast Asia of the early modern period maritime trade has always been an important topic. A good opportunity for learning more about early modern shipping and trade is by making use of the few surviving harbourmasters' registrations of private traffic in fifteen major ports in Java around the year 1775. In this book these records, registering more than 20,000 ship movements, are analysed and interpreted in their broader context. The traffic in the shallow waters along the coast of Java appears to have experienced a rising tide of Dutch presence.