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Indonesian Cuisine
Selamat Makan
Food and its preparation are an integral part of the lives of the Indonesian people. Cooking is a time of community and celebration, and recipes, techniques and traditions are hand...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Four Years till Tomorrow
Despair and Hope in Wartime Dutch East Indies
The surrender of the Japanese in South East Asia on August 15th, 1945 was for Dutch civilian camp internees only the beginning of yet another period of upheaval, hostilities and pe...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol1 book1
Volume I: The Century of Discovery
The rise to world dominance and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the anc...
USD 73.95 / CAD 99.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol2 book1
Volume II: A Century of Wonder
In The Visual Arts, the author focuses specifically on the effect of the “silent sources” on European art. These sources are the Eastern art and artifacts, flora, fauna, and crafts...
USD 48.95 / CAD 68.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol2 book2
Volume II: A Century of Wonder
The Literary Arts surveys the Asian themes, influences, and echoes in the national literatures of Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and England. “These volu...
USD 48.95 / CAD 68.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol2 book3
Volume II: A Century of Wonder
The Scholarly Disciplines analyzes the fields where the revelation of Asia was most apparent: technology and the natural sciences, cartography and geography, the languages and lin...
USD 48.95 / CAD 68.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book1
Volume III: A Century of Advance
Trade, Missions, Literature deals with Christian missions and trade and conquest in the East. It examines the various histories, reports, letterbooks, and travelogues printed and w...
USD 67.95 / CAD 94.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book2
Volume III: A Century of Advance
South Asia examines the European images of the lands, societies, religions, and cultures of the Mughul Empire, Goa, Bijapur, Kanara, Malabar, Coromandel, and insular South Asia inc...
USD 55.95 / CAD 78.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book3
Volume III: A Century of Advance
Southeast Asia deals with European images of the lands, societies, religions, and cultures of Southeast Asia. The continental nations of Siam, Vietnam, Malaya, Pegu, Arakan, Cambo...
USD 55.95 / CAD 78.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol3 book4
Volume III: A Century of Advance
In this volume, East Asia reviews European images of China during the late Ming and early Ch’ing dynasties, ranging from its religious practices, customs, and intellectual life to ...
USD 67.95 / CAD 94.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol1 book2
Volume I: A Century of Discovery
The rise to world dominance and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the anc...
USD 61.95 / CAD 86.95
In the Shadow of the Sun
...and they persevered; a tribute to a caring mother. Author Ronny Herman shares with the reader her mother’s anxieties, frustrations, and hopes of the time when she with her two y...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Eight Prison Camps
A Dutch Family in Japanese Java
Eldest daughter of eight children, the author was raised in a teacher’s family in Surakarta, Java, in what is now Indonesia. The family was segregated when the occupying Japanese a...
USD 29.95 / CAD 34.95
Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca 1641-1795
In 1500 Malay Malacca was the queen city of the Malay Archipelago, one of the great trade centers of the world. Its rulers, said to be descendents of the ancient line of Srivijaya,...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Song of Survival
Women Interned
They survived three-and-a half years in a Japanese concentration camp for women and children in Sumatra during World War II. But these courageous women - missionaries, teachers, nu...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
John Company
Toward the end of the sixteenth century, the Dutch were fighting to establish their independence from Spain, and overseas trading and colonial explorations were a vital part of tha...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Faded Portraits
A fictionalized memoir of family life in the former colonial Dutch East Indies, the novel is the story of the once powerful De Paulys, and especially Aunt Sophie, the matriarch, wh...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run’s harvest of nutmeg turned i...
USD 6.95 / CAD 7.95
Asia in the Making of Europe vol 1 book 3
Vol I: A Century of Discovery
The rise to world dominance and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the anc...
USD 67.95 / CAD 86.95
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Zuiderkruis (ship model)
and sister ships Groote Beer / Waterman
These three made Dutch immigrant history by sailing to Australia and Canada and New Zealand! All three ships are 1944 Portland, Oregon-built convertible war-effort Victory class ve...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949
Survivors' accounts of the Japanese occupation and eyewitness stories of the ensuing struggle for an independent Indonesia. Unlike the story of the liberation of the Netherlands, t...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Sabelis Symphony
Exploration is part of the inevitable process that dominates the work of artists. It takes on a much broader scope when this exploration involves more than one culture. It becomes ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
Batavia's Graveyard
The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
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 wa...
USD 16.95 / CAD 21.95
American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies-Indonesia
U.S. Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism 1920-1949.U.S. Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism 1920-1949
The book challenges the view that during the period 1945-1949, the American government and its foreign policymakers unequivocally backed the Indonesian Republic's struggle for inde...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
The Arabian Mission's Story
In Search of Abraham's Other Son
The book recounts the eighty-year-long history of the mission work of the Reformed Church in America (RCA) in the Middle East, written by a missionary who has spent decades in the ...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Decolonising the Caribbean
Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective
Much has been written on the post-WW2 decolonization in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly comparative perspective, and seldom with serious attention to the former Dutch coloni...
USD 21.95 / CAD 29.95
Duizend Dagen Indie
The editors of this book formatted the 1945-1948 diary of shock trooper Jan van Trigt, a WWII resistance man who volunteered for the Dutch army following the liberation of the Neth...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Indonesian-English---English-Indonesian Practical Dictionary
Ideal for the foreign executive. Extensive listings of words and phrases that appear in everyday business. Concise and easy to follow. Alphabetical listings according to prefix of ...
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
Speak Standard Indonesian
Learn from 213 dialogue exercises, the key to those numerous situations that make the merest day-to-day communication an obstacle course: meeting new acquaintances, identifying and...
USD 8.95 / CAD 12.95
A Long Way
From the cold, harsh waters of Northern Europe to the tropical islands of the Dutch East Indies, the author in his novel captures the visual and spiritual dynamics of these two wor...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Ship's Surgeons of the Dutch East India Company
Commerce and the Progress of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century
During the eighteenth century, the surgeons of ships employed by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) were responsible not only for the health of sailors on board, but also of those ...
USD 59.95 / CAD 84.95
A Family Occupation
Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in Dutch Literature of the 1980s
Many of today's Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. Th...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Feasts of Honor
Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands
Among the Toraja of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, mortuary rituals are exotic spectacles. Bellowing water buffalo and squealing pigs for sacrifice, colourful displays of ritual arc...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 8
This installment of the author’s insider history of the U.S. Navy covers five of the most eventful months of the Pacific war, from March through July 1944. Filled with spectacular ...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
The Social World of Batavia
Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia, Second Edition
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Java site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the n...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Tjideng Reunion
When WWII broke out in Europe and the Nazis occupied their homeland, two Dutch families living in South Africa moved to the Netherlands East Indies to contribute to the defense of ...
USD 27.95 / CAD 34.95
Het Indie Boek
Few people will know this, but a public request in 1872 by a Haarlem-museum for photographs of life in the Dutch East Indies, is the basis of a 150,000 entries image bank on the fo...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Nederlanders, Japanners, Indonesiers
Een opmerkelijke tentoonstelling
Those interested in Dutch history quickly discover a vast amount of foreign influences in every period of Dutch history, from the Romans in pre-medieval times to Afghanistan and WW...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Footsteps and Fingerprints
The Legacy of a Shared History
Over 400 years ago, the United Republic of the Dutch province made contacts in every cormer of the globe upon which they built their economic structure. Many of the centuries-old r...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
De Meelstreep
Terugkeer en opvang na de Tweede Wereldoorlog
What was coming home like to exiles, 'colonials', deportees and concentration camp survivors? A royal welcome for them too? This book starts of with the Dutch royal family and then...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
In een Japanse stroomversnelling
Berichten van Nederlandse watermannen (1872-1903)
The export of skills and expertise of the Dutch has old coinage and exotic destinations. In the 1870s, seven Dutch hydraulic engineers and four bricklayers/wickerworkers laboured a...
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
Hamel's World
A Dutch-Korean Encounter in the Seventeenth Century
In 1653 the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) ship Sperwer was shipwrecked on the rocks off a remote Korean island. Thirty-six men of the crew survived the ordeal. The king of Korea ...
USD 17.95 / CAD 24.95
En nog steeds hebben wij twee vaderlanden
Op avontuur in Nederlands-Indië
Roots in the Dutch East Indies and searching for context to your family history? You may want to read this book. Before 1940, Amsterdam residents in search for a job could just as ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Memoirs of an Indo Woman
Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad
This book provides an overview of practically the whole of the twentieth century as experienced by persons of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry who called the former Dutch East I...
USD 32.95 / CAD 39.95
99 dollar sale
Dutch (Immigrant) Heritage Sale. Valid April-May 2023
Up to a weight of 5KG or a $99 retail value of titles on Dutch immigrant history and related Netherlandic subjects, including such titles as To All Our Children, Floral Passion and...
USD 99.00 / CAD 99.00
To All Our Children
The Story of Postwar Dutch Immigration to Canada
This large coffee-table book is back in print. To All Our Children describes in extensive detail the process of wanting to leave one's home and extended family so soon follo...
USD 35.95 / CAD 44.95