{"id":25649,"date":"2012-09-28T15:27:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25649"},"modified":"2013-02-08T18:31:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:31:19","slug":"the-social-world-of-batavia-europeans-and-eurasians-in-colonial-indonesia-second-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25649","title":{"rendered":"The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia (Second Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\/books\/4497.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia (Second Edition)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Wisconsin Press<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2009 (First Published in 1983)<br \/>\n312 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n14 b\/w illustrations<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/humanities.arts.unsw.edu.au\/staff\/jean-gelman-taylor-148.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Gelman Taylor<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of New South Wales<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\/books\/4497.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\/books\/images\/4497.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indonesia\" target=\"_blank\">Indonesian<\/a> site of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jakarta\" target=\"_blank\">Jacarta<\/a>. 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\u2019s extraordinary social world\u2014its marriage patterns, religious and social organizations, economic interests, and sexual roles. <strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original in its focus on gender and use of varied sources\u2014travelers\u2019 accounts, newspapers, legal codes, genealogical data, photograph albums, paintings, and ceramics\u2014<em>The Social World of Batavia<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia (Second Edition) University of Wisconsin Press April 2009 (First Published in 1983) 312 pages 6 x 9\u00a0\u00a0 14 b\/w illustrations Jean Gelman Taylor, Associate Professor of History University of New South Wales In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,16,11,459,8,17],"tags":[5011,12177,12176,12175,1684],"class_list":["post-25649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-indonesia","tag-jacarta","tag-jakarta","tag-jean-gelman-taylor","tag-university-of-wisconsin-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}