Earn Geschiedenis Van Indonesië Imagined By H.J. De Graaf Format Kindle

he became famous as his generations foremost historian of Java, Dr De Graaff had been a history teacher at various secondary schools in the Dutch East Indies.
He had been an advocate of a benign kind of colonialism, which you find reflected in this History of Indonesia, published inwhen Indonesia became independent.
Dr. De Graaff had intended to include more of the

Indonesian side than in the books of his predecessors, who mostly relied on foreign Western, Chinese, and Arab sources.
Given the limited native sources of information available, he integrated some of the legends from the babads: his experience as a history teacher clearly shines through.
Given his opinion on colonialism, Dr, De Graaff is somewhat more positive or should I say “tolerant” about the more controversial figures of colonial rule than later generations.


Various newer histories have since replaced thispage book, however few in Western languages cover the prehistory of Indonesia and the various “outer islands” as extensively as this book.
Funnily, he also included the Dutch colonies and trading posts managed from Batavia, The short chapters of limited interest on Taiwan, Ceylon, Nagasaki, and the Cape of Good Hope make Indonesia look like the centre of global empire.


Although I seemed to have encountered some errors in this first edition, I found the book still quite readable, although I skipped a few chapters where I had read newer books.
Geschiedenis een discussie zonder eind, en met die gedachte is dit nog altijd een prima inleiding in de geschiedenis van Indonesië tot december.
Lees mijn kritische beschouwing op sitelinkdepiependemeerkoet, nl. Hermanus Johannes de Graaf.