Shaping a Dutch East Indies: François Valentyn's Voc Empire

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Shaping a Dutch East Indies discusses the construction of knowledge in Francois Valentyn's multi-volume account of the trading empire of the Dutch East India Company from 1724-1726, and the foundational role it played in Dutch perceptions of the East Indies as an imperial space for more than a hundred years after its publication.