Intimacy and Social (Dis)Order in Dutch Colonial Expansion

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Intimacy and Social (Dis)Order in Dutch Colonial Expansion is written by Sophie Rose and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004746757 (ISBN 10) and 9789004746756 (ISBN 13).

Explosive sexual scandals, bitter domestic conflicts, and dramatic changes in fortune. Sex, marriage, and family life were matters of enormous consequence in the highly complex societies that formed across the early modern Dutch overseas empire. This was not only true for the colonial authorities that administered settlements on behalf of the Dutch East and West India Companies (VOC and WIC), but also for the people of various backgrounds and statuses that inhabited these places. Focusing primarily on the eighteenth century, this book explores how these disparate and unequally empowered groups contested the norms that governed intimate life in Dutch colonial outposts from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic.