Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 60, Issue 2, 2022

Abstract This article traces the career of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (Old and New East Indies, 1724-1726) by François Valentyn during the nineteenth century. Valentyn’s multivolume work on the Dutch East India Company’s trading area continued to be used until the middle of the nineteenth century, when the Dutch colonial empire in Asia was reduced to the Indonesian archipelago. During this period, it served as a Read More

Abstract Rob Nieuwenhuys, one of the most prominent historians of the Dutch East Indies literature, characterizes Johannes Olivier (1789-1858) as a writer who was critical of the European sense of superiority in the Dutch East Indies. Olivier worked in the colony in the service of the Dutch government from 1817 onwards. After returning to the Netherlands in 1826, he became a writer and published several books, including Read More

Abstract In the 1630s Japan initiated an isolationist policy and closed its borders for most foreigners. Between 1641 and 1853 employees of the Dutch trade mission on the artificial island Deshima in the harbour of Nagasaki were the only Europeans to reside in Japan. One of them was Jan Frederik van Overmeer Fisscher (1800-1848), the supervisor of the warehouse during his sojourn in Japan. After returning to Europe Van Read More

Abstract During the second half of the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth century, the view from Hotel Bellevue in Buitenzorg (now: Bogor) became one of the obligatory sights for the Western tourist visiting Java. In numerous colonial travel texts from this period we find laudatory descriptions of this must-see. In addition to textual descriptions, visual depictions appeared; the panorama was frequently represented i Read More

Abstract In this article I investigate the ‘adiaphorization’ of ethical discomfort in travel stories in the Dutch magazine Avenue (1965-2002) – a politically oriented, high-quality glossy that attracted a wealthy, anti-bourgeois, audience. Which became increasingly clear during this period, and also led to an international code of conduct for ethical tourism in the 1990s, is the fact that the desire to travel is at odds with its harmfu Read More