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Author : Peter FitzSimons
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1864711345
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Batavia written by Peter FitzSimons and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Author : Mike Dash
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 140004510X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Batavia's Graveyard written by Mike Dash and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-03-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia’s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company’s flagship, was loaded with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company’s fleet, a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a bankrupt and disgraced man who possessed disarming charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, Jeronimus soon sparked a mutiny that seemed certain to succeed—but for one unplanned event: In the dark morning hours of June 3, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The commander of the ship and the skipper evaded the mutineers by escaping in a tiny lifeboat and setting a course for Java—some 1,800 miles north—to summon help. Nearly all of the passengers survived the wreck and found themselves trapped on a bleak coral island without water, food, or shelter. Leaderless, unarmed, and unaware of Jeronimus’s treachery, they were at the mercy of the mutineers. Jeronimus took control almost immediately, preaching his own twisted version of heresy he’d learned in Holland’s secret Anabaptist societies. More than 100 people died at his command in the months that followed. Before long, an all-out war erupted between the mutineers and a small group of soldiers led by Wiebbe Hayes, the one man brave enough to challenge Jeronimus’s band of butchers. Unluckily for the mutineers, the Batavia’s commander had raised the alarm in Java, and at the height of the violence the Company’s gunboats sailed over the horizon. Jeronimus and his mutineers would meet an end almost as gruesome as that of the innocents whose blood had run on the small island they called Batavia’s Graveyard. Impeccably researched and beautifully written, Batavia’s Graveyard is the next classic of narrative nonfiction, the book that secures Mike Dash’s place as one of the finest writers of the genre.
Author : Jean Gelman Taylor
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299232131
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Social World of Batavia written by Jean Gelman Taylor and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus of the Dutch Asian Empire. In this pioneering study, Jean Gelman Taylor offers a comprehensive analysis of Batavia’s extraordinary social world—its marriage patterns, religious and social organizations, economic interests, and sexual roles. With an emphasis on the urban ruling elite, she argues that Europeans and Asians alike were profoundly altered by their merging, resulting in a distinctive hybrid, Indo-Dutch culture. Original in its focus on gender and use of varied sources—travelers’ accounts, newspapers, legal codes, genealogical data, photograph albums, paintings, and ceramics—The Social World of Batavia, first published in 1983, forged new paths in the study of colonial society. In this second edition, Gelman offers a new preface as well as an additional chapter tracing the development of these themes by a new generation of scholars.
Author : Jim Edwards
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738507958
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Batavia written by Jim Edwards and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated directly west of Chicago is Batavia, Illinois, world famous as the home of Fermilab, a center of nuclear research that hosts scientists from all over the world. Few people realize that this city has had a long history of leadership in the development of energy resources. In Batavia we endeavor to explore that history, with a look at power from windmills to power plants. Also part of the fabric of Batavia's past are the community leaders who transformed a river village (settled in the 1830s) into a vibrant and vital modern city. You will view a 1910 photographic essay capturing Batavians on the streets of their city, discover a unique early high-tech company that produced beauty and dietary consumer products in the 1930s, and experience an architectural walking tour (complete with a map) of old Batavia and her famous citizens. And to complete our journey through time, you will learn how Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln, came to live in Batavia.
Author : Leonard Blussé
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004488553
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Archives of the Kong Koan of Batavia written by Leonard Blussé and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archive of the Kong Koan constitutes the only relatively complete archive of a “diaspora” Chinese urban community in Southeast Asia. The essays in the present volume offer important and new insights into many different aspects of Overseas Chinese life between 1780-1965. The Kong Koan of colonial Batavia was a semi-autonomous organization, in which the local elite of Jakarta’s Chinese community supervised and coordinated its social and religious matters. During its long existence as a semi-official colonial institution, the Kong Koan collected sizeable Chinese archival holdings with demographic data on marriages and funerals, account books of the religious organisations and temples, documents connected with educational institutions, and the meetings of the board itself.
Author : Simon Leys
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921870087
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper written by Simon Leys and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1629, the Batavia was wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived, only to become victims of a visionary psychopath who, with the help of a dozen followers, organised a methodical massacre of the hapless community. Following the wreck's discovery some forty years ago, Simon Leys travelled to the site. This is his riveting account of the shipwreck and its brutal aftermath. As well as a narrative of the disaster, it is also a subtle consideration of the nature of totalitarianism and our susceptibility to its visionary ideologues. This book also includes Leys' elegiac essay, Prosper, recalling a summer when he joined the crew of a tuna-fishing boat from Brittany, one of the last boats still working under sail. This remarkable piece vividly evokes the traditions, hardships and dangers of the oldest and finest form of seamanship. 'The Wreck of the Batavia is a dazzling tale told by a master: brief, direct, essential – and monstrous.' —Philippe Sollers, Le Monde
Author : Mike Dash
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0609807161
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Batavia's Graveyard written by Mike Dash and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly. The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with great charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, he hatched a plot to seize the ship and her riches. The mutiny might have succeeded, but in the dark morning hours of June 3, 1629, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The captain and skipper escaped the wreck, and in a tiny lifeboat they set sail for Java—some 1,500 miles north—to summon help. More than 250 frightened survivors waded ashore, thankful to be alive. Unfortunately, Jeronimus and the mutineers had survived too, and the nightmare was only beginning.
Author : Barbara Ann Toal
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738504674
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Batavia written by Barbara Ann Toal and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located midway between Buffalo and Rochester, Batavia was an important area hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in America. Two long Indian trails converged here at what is known as the Great Meeting Place: one leading from Lake Erie to the Hudson River and the other from Lake Erie to the Susquehanna River. With more than 200 stunning images, Batavia recounts the history of the area from the early settlement at the Great Bend of the Ton-ne-wan-ta to the vibrant city that Batavia is today. The book tells the story of the Holland Land Company and its connection to the American Revolution; the railroads and their importance to the industrial growth of the city; and the urban renewal of the later 1900s, as well as the more current architectural restoration projects.
Author : Peter J.M. Nas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004454292
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Jakarta Batavia written by Peter J.M. Nas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines the work of twenty-one authors from East and West, some of whom are long-time residents of Jakarta and all of whom have lived and studied there for shorter or longer periods. They have in common that each of them has become fascinated by certain characteristics of Jakarta’s many-sided life. The subjects they deal with range from conditions in VOC Batavia to particular national or ethnic communities to administrative developments. The essays on early colonial Batavia yield new insights into the demographic situation bases on archival research, and those essays dealing with more modern topics make use of special sources, including maps, that are not easily accessible through libraries. Reading through this volume one encounters striking parallels between the past and the present, because many aspects of present-day Jakarta are deeply rooted in the history of the city: demography and urban morphology, environmental absurdities, traffic, and floods as well as ritual and symbolism. Historians, anthropologists, sociologists, administrators, and town planners may well draw inspiration from this kaleidoscopic picture of Indonesia’s capital.
Author : Paul Martin Heisig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Water Resources of the Batavia Kill Basin at Windham, Greene County, New York written by Paul Martin Heisig and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Groot
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004253807
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Van Batavia naar Weltevreden written by Hans Groot and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, opgericht in 1778, is de voorloper van het Nationaal Museum en de Nationale Bibliotheek van de Republik Indonesia en geldt als de belangrijkste cultureel-wetenschappelijke organisatie van Nederlands-Indië in de VOC-tijd en de koloniale periode. In deze studie naar de vroege geschiedenis van deze eerbiedwaardige instelling komen aan de orde: de oprichting, het programma en het werkterrein van het genootschap, het ledenbestand en de leiding, groei, verval en wederopstanding, maar vooral de relatie tot de overheid van deze formeel private onderneming, die soms eerder een overheidsinstelling leek te worden. Het archief van het Genootschap, dat bewaard wordt in het Nationaal Archief van de Republik Indonesia, is hiertoe de belangrijkste bron geweest. Het is sinds 1878 nauwelijks beschikbaar geweest voor onderzoekers buiten de kring van het genootschap. Voor historici, linguïsten, antropologen, archeologen en anderen is het genootschapsarchief en de geschiedenis van het genootschap van groot belang.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book New York Federal Detention Center, City of Buffalo, Alboin Site and Batavia Site written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard Blussé
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004356703
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795) written by Leonard Blussé and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Chinese Annals of Batavia Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of the Chinese community of Batavia.
Author : Reading Group Choices
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975974476
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Reading Group Choices written by Reading Group Choices and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Code of Provisional Regulations for the Judicial and Police Departments at Batavia, Samarang, and Sourabaya, Containing Rules for the Practice, and Mode of Proceeding, in Civil and Criminal Cases, ... Throughout the Island of Java written by sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Investigations, Oversight, and Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Amend the Golden Nematode Act, and Relief of Batavia Turf Farms, Inc written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Investigations, Oversight, and Research and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Boerema
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A New Determination of the Eastern Longitude of Batavia written by Jan Boerema and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
