商品簡介
In the historiography of Southeast Asia of the early modern period maritime trade has always been an important topic. Nevertheless, many questions still remain unresolved, particularly concerning the development of indigenous traffic and the way this traffic was affected by European intrusion. A good opportunity for learning more about early modern shipping and trade is by making use of the few surviving harbourmasters' registrations of private traffic in fifteen major ports in Java around the year 1775. In this book these records, registering more than 20,000 ship movements, are analysed and interpreted in their broader context. The traffic in the shallow waters along the coast of Java appears to have experienced a rising tide of Dutch presence.
作者簡介
Gerrit Knaap is now head of the Historical Documentation Department of the KITLV.
