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Company and court. Institutional change at Cirebon, 1681-1735

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Author

Editor

  • Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
  • Peter Rietbergen

Summary, in English

The article emphasizes the opportunities presented to local potentates provided by the establishment of the Dutch East India Company as de facto sovereignty over West Java. Those seizing the opportunities prospered as never before; those who did not went under. The process altered indelibly the fabric of Javanese society.

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Pages

139-157

Publication/Series

Hod en Handel. Aziatische vorsten en de VOC 1620-1720

Volume

233

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Leiden, Holland

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • institutional history
  • social change
  • Dutch East India Company
  • VOC
  • mercantile colonialism
  • Java

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 90 6718 231 1