A Madman in the City of Ghosts
Nicolaas Kloek in Pontianak
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11281378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J J van Goor (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 196-211 |
| Publication date | 1985-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Itinerario (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-1153 • E-ISSN: 2041-2827 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0165115300016181 |
| OpenAlex | W2124053334 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
In the many letters written by princes in the Indonesian archipelago to the Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company at Batavia, the relative status.is expressed in the address. Titles that are used range from “friend and ally” to “father” and “grandfather,” reflecting the formal relationship that had been laid down in the contracts. The address shows the position of the VOC occupied during the greater part of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The Dutch East India Company, though a large bureaucratic apparatus, was approached in a personified way. The formal distance to the Governor-General was expressed in terms derived from daily social life. It also makes one realize that a trading company had become an Asian ruler. In the Indonesian archipelago the VOC constituted an important political power
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| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2015 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |