Ulbe Bosma


Ulbe Bosma is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.


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Being “Dutch” in the Indies

A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500–1920

Being “Dutch” in the Indies portrays Dutch colonial territories in Asia not as mere societies under foreign occupation but rather as a “Creole empire.” In telling the story of the Creole empire, the authors draw on government archives, newspapers, and literary works as well as genealogical studies that follow the fortunes of individual families over several generations.…

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