Aceh Sultanate
Subtitle: state, society, religion and trade : the Dutch sources, 1636-1661
By: edited by Ito Takeshi
Series: Handbook of Oriental studies = -- Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 3,  Southeast Asia -- volume 23
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004288812; 9789004288829; 9789004291713; 9789004291720
Subjects: Sources; History
Description: "There are many excellent published collections of the indispensable Dutch documents for the History of Indonesia in the seventeenth century. However all of these have a Batavia-centred VOC view of the Archipelago and beyond, and show the relations of the Company with states which eventually fell within its orbit. Aceh, however, was the one state of the Archipelago that never fell within this orbit and maintained a defiant independence until 1873. It is therefore the most interesting state, but the least well known. Historians of Indonesia and of Islamic Asia in particular will need to consult this collection, but it will be of interest also to historians of Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian History more broadly in the early modern period"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.