Architect van de koloniale staat:Het excentrieke leven van Herman Warner Muntinghe (1773-1827) ; Architect of the colonial state:The eccentric life of Herman Warner Muntinghe (1773-1827)

Herman Warner Muntinghe (1773-1827), the protagonist of this study, was the main architect of the new colonial state that emerged in the Indonesian archipelago in the early nineteenth century. This book focuses on the question of how ideas from the Enlightenment took shape in the Dutch colonial state formation in the Indonesian archipelago and how Muntinghe, between 1806 and 1827, collaborated with his superiors, to develop and implement these ideas. The key to this development of ideas about colonial governance was not primarily in The Hague or in Batavia, but in the interaction between conte... Mehr ...