Author: KNAAP, G.J.,
Title: Kruidnagelen en Christenen. De Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie en de Bevolking van Ambon 1656-1696. Cloves and Christians. The Dutch East India Company and the Population of Ambon 1656-1696. [Second printing, Trade edition after the original
Description: Thesis, Utrecht university, 1985]. Dordrecht/Providence, Foris Publications, 1987. Original printed limp glossy wrappers, illustration on front cover. (xii), 323pp. 14 full-page black/white illustrations after old engravings, some illustrations in text, many tables, graphs. and diagrams in text and full-page, full-page sketch-maps, appendices 1-7, glossaria of indonesan and ambonese words , phrases and botanical terms, literature consulted, registers of personal and geographical names, notes to chapters at end, lists of graphs, plates and maps, table of contents. [VKI, 125]. Important dutch language research into the history, developmt of Clove cultivation in the Moluccas under V.O.C. charter, the monopoly and its enforcement, economy and trade, the impact on local population, local and european grower's, distribution of civil administration of Ambon districts, hongi expeditions and statuary labour, production and planting of cloves, demography, local political struture and colonization, VOC state and its subjects, taxation, production of food, trade and shipping, local industry, cultivation of Cloves under VOC monopopy. Very good copy.

Keywords: voc dutch east india company monomoly cloves cultivation history economy trade demography policy politics colonialism ambon moluccas molukken kruidnagelen trade indonesia southeast asia spices