The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations IX List of Maps Xl Acknowledgments XUI Guide to the Text xv Preface to the Second Edition xvii Introduction xxv 1: Origins of the City of Batavia 3 Population, 3 Institutions and Laws, 20 114 135 159 175 199 6: The Inner Life of Late Colonial Society Epilogue New Explorations of European-Asian Encounters Maps 2: Growth of the Settlement Society 33 3: The Web of Colonial Society: Batavia and Environs in the Eighteenth Century 52 4: The Assault on Indies Culture 78 The Enlightenment in Batavia, 78 The British Interregnum, 96 5: The Destruction of VOC Society and the Creation of the New Colonial vii CONTENTS Appendix 1: Family Trees Appendix 2: Governors-General and Their Wives Appendix 3: Family and Position in VOC Batavia Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography Index viii 205 221 225 231 257 259 273 ...