Author: COOLHAAS, W. PH.,
Title: Controleur B.B. Herinneringen van een jong Bestuursambtenaar in Nederlands-Indië. [Eerste druk/first edn.].
Description: Utrecht, HES, 1985. Orig. limp glossy wrappers, coloured illustration after a painting by A. Payen on front cover. 239pp. Text-ills., incl. portraits, some sketch-maps in text and full-page, glossarium indonesian-dutch, author's C.V., table of contents. Autobiography in which author describes his career as a civil servant, dutch colonial Indonesian administration, incl. his postings at the Moluccas, Java (Semarang), Manggarai (Flores), South Tapanuli and East Coast Sumatra. Fine copy.

Keywords: autobiography history civil service controleur politics administration economics colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur