The Travels of Pieter Albert Bik

Writings from the Dutch Colonial World of the Early Nineteenth Century

Mikko Toivanen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2017
Leiden University Press (Verlag)
978-90-8728-279-0 (ISBN)

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Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) was a Dutch colonial official whose work took him all over the world, including travels throughout Europe, the Dutch East Indies, and Japan. This book presents for the first time in English his autobiographical writings about those travels, which Bik never published in his lifetime. Presented here with annotations to set his observations in context, Bik's accounts offer a unique glimpse of the wide horizons of the world of Dutch colonialism in the first half of the nineteenth century, while editor Mikko Toivanen also draws interesting parallels between Bik's travels and the contemporary emergence of tourist travel in Europe.

Mikko Toivanen is a research fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, funded by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, specialising in global and colonial history. His work deals with the Dutch and British empires in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia and the global cultures of imperialism, with a current focus on developing ideas of urbanity and the changing uses of public space in colonial contexts. His wider research interests include the global circulations of colonial knowledge and the history of Nordic colonial entanglements.

Part I. A Colonial Life in Travels
Chapter 1. Pieter Albert Bik and His Writings
Chapter 2. Travel and Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3. The Global Tourist Pieter Albert Bik
Part II. The Manuscript of Pieter Albert Bik
A Note on the Translation
Brief Notes by Pieter Albert Bik, Born in Amsterdam on the 18th of July 1798, since the Year 1813
Journal Kept on the Court Trip to Jedo in the Year 1844, by P.A. Bik, Chief Factor of the Dutch Trade in Japan
Notes of P.A. Bik, Made on the Journey from Batavia to Holland, over the So-Called Land Route
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Colonial and Global History Through Dutch Sources
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 345 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-8728-279-6 / 9087282796
ISBN-13	978-90-8728-279-0 / 9789087282790
Zustand	Neuware