Asian trade and European influence in the Indonesian archipelago between 1500 and about 1630

Now that this study is completed and I wish to make due acknowledg­ ment to all those who have in any degree contributed towards its realization, my thoughts turn in the first place to the one to whom this book is dedicated. It is a great grief to me that he who took such an intense interest in my work has not lived to see its conclusion. It was he who in the beginning urged me to venture upon thi...