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To my dear Pieternelletje describes a ten-year period in the lives of Pieternella van Hoorn and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Eleven years old, Pieternella left for Amsterdam and the only contact possible was by mail.
Numerous letters have survived and combined with contemporaneous documents, most of them never published before, they offer a vivid and clear picture of their private life and feelings, forming a most welcome addition to official VOC-history.
Van Outhoorn not only acted as Pieternella’s mentor while she tried to adjust to her new but unknown fatherland, but also sent her numerous exquisite presents, the greater part of which has been traced and described in full, thus offering new insight in the cultural history of Asia.
Numerous letters have survived and combined with contemporaneous documents, most of them never published before, they offer a vivid and clear picture of their private life and feelings, forming a most welcome addition to official VOC-history.
Van Outhoorn not only acted as Pieternella’s mentor while she tried to adjust to her new but unknown fatherland, but also sent her numerous exquisite presents, the greater part of which has been traced and described in full, thus offering new insight in the cultural history of Asia.
Price: $279.00
Pages: 384
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
14 August 2015
ISBN: 9789004289666
Format: Hardcover
Brommer’s remarkable volume shows us that awareness of global connections, of the varieties of ethnic groups and respect for individuals across divides of class and caste are not peculiar to our contemporary world. She brings the immediacy of entwined personal lives to histories of “European expansion”.
Jean Gelman Taylor, University of New South Wales. In: Asian Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 1 (2017), pp. 163-164.
Jean Gelman Taylor, University of New South Wales. In: Asian Studies Review, Vol. 41, No. 1 (2017), pp. 163-164.
Bea Brommer, former museum director in the Netherlands, is a specialist on Dutch colonial history and cartography. Recent publications, as main author, include two volumes on respectively Dutch South Africa and the West Indies in the series Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch East India Company (vol. V), and West India Company (vol. I), (Asia Maior and National Archive, The Hague, 2009 and 2011).