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A Decade of Publications on the Netherlands East Indies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2011
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In the decade between the beginning of the world depression and the Japanese occupation of the islands there appeared a steadily mounting volume of literature on the Netherlands East Indies. This was a reflection of the increasing interest taken by the world, and by the United States in particular, in this large, tropical, insular dependency, but it was also an indication of the rapid social economic and political developments within the dependency. Before 1930 interest in the Netherlands Indies was not great; since 1930 world interest in it increased rapidly and by the end of the decade had become keen. The large corps of well-trained, scientifically minded Dutch officials sent forth a steadily increasing number of excellent studies on various phases of Indies life. Obviously, it is impossible to review the entire field of this literature; only the more significant contributions can be here considered.
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1 Staatkundig beleid en-bcstuurszorg in Nederlandsch Indie. Part I (2 vols.), 1929, Part II (1 vol.) 1930. De Kat Angelino was a specialist on Chinese affairs and later served as Director of the Department of Education.
2 Volume I, “General principles” (viii, 520 p.); Volume II, “The Dutch East Indies” (vii. 674 p.).
3 A French view of the Netherlands Indies (ix, 133 p.).
4 Land and people of Java.
5 During the past decade there were published a large number of travel books on the Indies and a number of books dealing with Bali alone. Few of these are of any scientific value. A noteworthy exception, however, is Covarrubias', MiguelIsland of Bali (New York, 1937, x, 417 p.)Google Scholar, which deals with the life, society, religion and drama of the Balinese. For a survey of the Christian Church and missions in the Indies there is Rauws, Joh., Kraemer, H. and Slotemaker de Bruine's, N. A. C. excellent work. The Netherlands Indies (London and New York, 1935, 186 p.).Google Scholar
6 The topics and authors are as follows:
Vol. I. A. Pre-history. A. N. J. Thomassen and A. Theussink van der Hoop.
Vol. I. B. The Hindu-Javanese period. N. J. Krom.
Vol. I. C. The expansion of Islamism. R. A. Kern.
Vol. II. A. Javanese history-writing. C. C. Berg.
Vol. II. B. Portuguese and Spaniards. C. Wessels.
Vol. II. C. French and English. H. Terpstra.
Vol. II. D. The early Netherlands Companys. H. Terpstra.
Vol. III. A. The organizing of the United East Indian Company.
Vol. III. B. The Netherlands East India Company in the seventeenth century. D. W. Stapel.
Vol. IV. The Netherlands East India Company in the eighteenth century. E. C. Godee Malsbergen.
Vol. V. A. The Batavian republic and the French period.
Vol. V. B. The English interregnum.
Vol. V. C. The kingdom of the Netherlands. F. W. Stapel.
Vol. VI. The modern period and its expression in the Indies. I. J. Brugmans. It is not known whether this last volume was actually published. No copies of it have come to this country.
7 For an interesting history of medicine in the Indies there is Occidental therapeutics in the Netherlands East Indies during three centuries of Netherlands settlement (1600–1900) by Dr. D. Sehoute (Batavia, 1937. 214 p.).
8 Professor van Vollenhoven died April 29, 1933.
9 The collection naturally does not include Professor van Vollenhoven's major writings, such as Het adatrecht van Nederlandsch-lndie: De Indonesier en zijn grand, and others.
10 Parliamentary history of the law on the governmental organization of Netherlands-Indies.
11 The commission was composed of three Netherlanders, three Indonesians, and a Chinese, with Dr. F. H. Visman, member of the Council of the Indies as chairman. The commission is generally referred to as the Visman Commission.