The Travels of Pieter Albert Bik

Writings from the Dutch Colonial World of the Early Nineteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-8728-279-0
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Reihe: Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toivanen, Mikko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Expeditions- & Reiseliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

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

Über Autor(innen)

Toivanen, Mikko
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.