商品簡介
Murder and Mayhem in Seventeenth-Century Cambodia: Anthony van Diemen vs King Ramadhipati I tells the fascinating story of the origins, course, and consequences of the conflict in the 1630s and '40s between Cambodia and the Dutch East India Company (VOC), a confrontation that has the dubious distinction of being history's first between a mainland Southeast Asian state and a European power. Apart from its appeal as an extraordinary tale in its own right, this historical narrative affords a rare glimpse into a largely unknown period in Cambodian history, namely, the period between the fall of Angkor in the mid-fifteenth century and the arrival of the French in the late nineteenth century.
作者簡介
Alfons van der Kraan was born in the Netherlands and educated there, in Canada, and in Australia. He specializes in the economic history of Southeast Asia and has been a lecturer at the Australian National University, at Murdoch University in Perth, and, currently, at the University of New England, Australia. He has published widely on the economic history of Indonesia, especially that of the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok.
