The utilisation of “Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën” (“Old and New East Indies”) of François Valentyn by the directors of the Dutch East India Company in the eighteenth century ; Het gebruik van “Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën” van François Valentyn door bewindhebbers van de VOC in de achttiende eeuw
This article discusses the circulation of information extracted from François Valentyn’s Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (1724–1726) during the eighteenth century, both with regards to the central organs of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the Netherlands and the VOC establishments in the East Indies. First, three documents are analysed that were part of five VOC directors’ personal archives, with the aim to determine the way these directors made use of Valentyn’s book. It is concluded that for these directors Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën was probably the most important source of information about t... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego Sp. z o.o.
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Schlagwörter: | François Valentyn / Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën / VOC / paper tools / standardisation of knowledge |
Sprache: | Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27458984 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://wuwr.pl/nwr/article/view/12836 |