Netherlands (Dutch) East Indies (Nederlands[ch] Oost-Indie) was the colony covering much of present-day Indonesia. Until the late 1700s, the East Indies Company (VOC) represented Dutch authority in Asia. Headquartered in Batavia (now Jakarta), the VOC...

The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, (Dutch: Nederlands-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia-Belanda) was formed from the nationalised colonies of the former Dutch East India Company that came under the administration of the Netherlands during the...

By TINEKE HELLWIG. Windsor: Netherlandic Press, 1994. Pp. 103. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. In Adjustment and Discontent, Tineke Hellwig introduces turn-of-the-century literature in Dutch and Malay in which the chief characters are women and the chief themes are their entanglements in multi-racial relationships....

By LUC NAGTEGAAL. Leiden: KITLV Press, Verhandelingen van her Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- and Volkenkunde, Vol. 171, 1996. Pp. 250. Based on hitherto little-known documents of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Nagtegaal provides us with a detailed and interdisciplinary study...

Today is Friday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2008. There are 355 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 11, 1908, the Grand Canyon National Monument was created with a proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt. (It became a national park in 1919.)On...