Transformations and discussion: Suriname and the Netherlands, 1863–1890

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Snelders
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
West Indies ◽  
British India ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Medical Expertise ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch Policy ◽  
Dutch East Indies

This chapter examines Dutch debates about leprosy between 1863 and 1890. The debates took place when the threat of a ‘return’ of leprosy to the Netherlands appeared to materialise. While Dutch policy makers and doctors had to call upon medical expertise from Suriname, at the same time European medicine questioned the validity of a contagionist theory for leprosy. In the Dutch East Indies, with much less direct Dutch control over the population, the hereditarian view of leprosy was embraced. However, in the Dutch West Indies, the international shift in medical thought towards a hereditarian rather than a contagionist view of leprosy did not affect the principle of segregation, that remained in place after the abolition of slavery in 1863, and during the transformation of society because of the immigration of indentured labourers from British India and Java. The chapter argues that developments around leprosy in Suriname remained autonomous and were not directed from the Netherlands.

Private Trade and Elite Privilege. The Trial of Nicolaas Schaghen, Director of Bengal

Itinerario ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela McVay
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
High Court ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
At Home

It is common wisdom among the historians of the Dutch East Indies that everyone in the Dutch East India Company engaged in private trade. That is, ‘everyone’ traded in goods supposedly monopolized by the Company and ‘everyone’ abused his or her position to squeeze graft from the Company's trade. It was, supposedly, to get their hands on the private trade and graft that people joined the Dutch East India Company (VOC: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) in the first place. But back in the Netherlands the VOC's Board of Directors (the Heeren XVII) objected vociferously to private trade, which drained Company profits and shareholder revenue. To appease the Heeren XVII back at home, the various Governors-General and Councillors of the Indies (Raad van Indië), who represented the Heeren XVII in Asia, issued annual placards forbidding private trade while the High Court (Raad van Justitie) carried out infrequent desultory trials for private trade. But these prosecutions were inevitably doomed to failure, so the story goes, because everyone engaged in private trade would ‘cover’ for everyone else.

‘Behoed ons arme volk voor de vulkaan-poëten’

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-422
Author(s):  
Judith Bosnak ◽  
Rick Honings
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Content Type ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Literary Reception

Abstract ‘Save our poor people from the vulcano poets’. The literary reception of the Krakatoa disaster of 1883 in the Netherlands and Indonesi On August 27, 1883, the volcano Krakatau in the Dutch East Indies erupted and collapsed, causing the deaths of tens of thousands, mainly as a result of devastating tsunamis. The Krakatau eruption was one of the first disasters to take place beyond the Dutch boundaries that received so much attention in the Netherlands. Because the Indies were a Dutch colony, a response of the motherland was rather logical. In many places, charity activities were organized to raise money for the victims. This article focuses on the Dutch and Indonesian literary reactions on the Krakatau disaster. For this purpose, two scholars work together: one specialized in Dutch Literary Studies and the other one in Indonesian Languages and Cultures. In the first part of the article several Dutch charity publications are analysed; the second part focuses on Indonesian sources (in Javanese and Malay). How and to what extend did the reactions in the Netherlands and Indonesia differ?

Imperial Conquest, Violent Encounters, and Changing Gender Relations in Colonial Warfare, 1830s–1910s

2020 ◽  
pp. 308-327
Author(s):  
Angela Woollacott
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
British India ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Netherlands East Indies ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
Colonial Warfare

The period between the 1830s and the 1910s is significant for the rapid expansion of the British and French Empires in particular and fierce interimperial rivalries, as well as the late rise of non-European empires. The warfare that characterized imperial expansion and indigenous resistance, as sparked by imperial invasions and gradual conquests of colonial territories, including the suppression of uprisings, was often diffuse and chaotic. This chapter considers how the contact zones of aggressively expanding colonialism were structured by violence, in places ranging from the British settler colonies of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to Crown colonies of various European empires, including British India, the Netherlands East Indies, and French Indochina. It assesses the intersections of gender and militarized violence on frontiers and in the daily life of colonial societies.

GERARD SCHURMANN IN INTERVIEW

Tempo ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (231) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earl Tomson
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
East Indies ◽  
The Us ◽  
Dutch East Indies

Gerard Schurmann was born of Dutch parents in the former Dutch East Indies in 1924, but spent more than 40 years, including the most formative period of his musical life, in England before moving to the US in 1981. Even during his years in the Netherlands as orchestral conductor with the Dutch Radio in his early twenties, he maintained an apartment in London, sometimes commuting to his place of work in Hilversum. His experience was similar to Bernard van Dieren, another Dutch-born composer who lived in England, although not for as many years as Schurmann: Holland has made no particular move to claim either as a Dutch composer. It was in England that Schurmann developed his skills and persona as a musician, after arriving as a teenager in 1941.

The Difficulty of Getting it Right: Dutch Policy in the Caribbeans

Itinerario ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemarijn Hoefte
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
Netherlands Antilles ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Netherlands East Indies ◽  
Dutch Policy ◽  
The Will

Dutch colonialism has traditionally focused on the East Indies, rather than the West Indies. Thus when Queen Wilhelmina, while in exile in London, declared in 1942 that the colonies should become autonomous with the words ‘relying on one's own strength, with the will to support each other,’ she was thinking of the East and not so much about Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Yet as it turned out, all constitutional plans, culminating into the Statuut or Charter of the Kingdom of 1954, even though conceived and drafted with the East in mind, was ultimately only applied to the West. The Netherlands East Indies, occupied by Japan during World War II, opted for independence after the War. The Hague did not accept this step and waged both hot and cold wars to fight against Indonesia's independence. This, for the Netherlands traumatic, experience left its traces in Dutch policy regarding its Caribbean territories.

Radio as a Tool of Empire. Intercontinental Broadcasting from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s and 1930s

Itinerario ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103
Author(s):  
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Long Range ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Radio Technology ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
A Company ◽  
Dutch Colonial

In the interwar years, the colonial powers of the day instantly saw long-range radio technology as an instrument to strengthen their empires as it enabled broadcasters in the European metropoles to reach audiences in the peripheries via the ether. This article focuses on the Dutch colonial station PHOHI, a company that pioneered global radio broadcasting. The station was founded by a group of influential entrepreneurs in order to strengthen ties between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies by reaching out to colonial expatriates. This case study shows how geopolitical and ideological considerations shaped both the organisation and the content of Dutch intercontinental broadcasting.

scholarly journals Peran Karel Frederick Holle dalam Perkembangan Pertanian dan Pendidikan di Garut

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Diky Muhammad Marzuki
Keyword(s):  
Dutch Government ◽  
Coffee Plantation ◽  
Government Employee ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Dutch Policy ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
The City

This paper discusses a very important figure in the development of language and literature in the city of Garut. Karel Frederick Holle was a Dutchman who came to the Indies at the age of 14 years. He began life in the Dutch East Indies as a housing administration employee in Cianjur. Followed by becoming a Dutch government employee in Batavia and ended up being an honorary advisor for land affairs in the administration department as well as a tea and coffee plantation owner in Cikajang Garut. This paper discusses K. F. Holle in outline. The author is aware of the lack of sources used due to the rare sources about K. F. Holle, therefore it needs further research in order to discuss all aspects in depth. Kata Kunci: Dutch Policy, Indonesian farming, K. F. Holle

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