Putnam invited him to their estate in Rye, New York, and Earhart showed him her planned route on a world map, highlighting ... After landing in a part of the Dutch East Indies that is now ...

Jakarta’s Chinatown during the Dutch colonial era, when the city was called Batavia. The photograph, attributed to Woodbury & Page, likely dates between 1857 and 1872. Then came the Dutch. The ...

Indonesia was the first country to declare independence in the wake of the Second World War, shortly after the surrender of Japan, which had occupied what was then known as the Dutch East Indies since ...

thanks to maritime trade developed through the Dutch East India Company. The VOC—an acronym for Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie—was one of those typical enterprises of its time, historically ...

His employers were usually wealthy landlords who hired him to map their estates to determine ... that dominated the economy of the Dutch East Indies with the avaricious companies that dominated ...

And the credit for boosting this exchange in the 17th century went partly to the Dutch. Until the Dutch East India Company, or VOC, snatched ... of the Dutch East Indies. From 1694 to 1696 ...

A force for bureaucracy in the world? The truth is that it was all these things and more. The Dutch East Indies were crucial for the VOC. Image: Hariboneagle927/Wikimedia Commons/CC0 1.0 Colonisation ...

Palmas Island is near 126 degrees 36 minutes east longitude and 5 degrees 35 minutes north latitude, that is to say, in the southeast corner of the zone ceded by Spain close to the line marking its ...

In 1621, in an effort to monopolise the nutmeg trade in the Banda Islands, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, then governor-general of the VOC based in the Dutch East-Indies, committed genocide after which he ...

Other times VOC troops took territory by force, meting out genocidal “punishments” to people who got in the way. The Dutch king, William I turned the screw so hard that by the 1850s the East Indies ...