De Moderne Tijd - Volume 8, Issue 3, 2024

Abstract A tourist totok in the tropics. Justus van Maurik on a journey in the Dutch East Indies In 1896, the Amsterdam cigar trader and writer Justus van Maurik embarked on a trip to the Dutch East Indies to pursue his business interests and to promote his cigar brand. In addition, he also intended to recite from his literary work in the colony. After his return, Van Maurik published the humorous travelogue Indrukken van ee Read More

Abstract ‘A Hand Book relative to the Straits and Java’. An early British tourist perspective on the Dutch East Indies (1853) In 1853, Charles Walter Kinloch, a judge in Bengal, British India, published an account of his trip to the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies: De zieke reiziger; or, Rambles in Java and the Straits in 1852. This can be considered one of the first guidebooks for English tourists visiting Java. Drawing on Elleke Boe Read More

Abstract Recreational bicycle tours in the tropics. Cycle tourism in the former Dutch East Indies at the end of the nineteenth century This article examines the early days of recreational cycling in the former Dutch East Indies (1884-1900). The central questions are: What did tourist colonial cycling cultures look like in ‘the Indies’ at the end of the nineteenth century? And what were the ideological foundations underlying these Read More