Max Havelaar; or, the coffee auctions of the Dutch trading company by Multatuli
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"Max Havelaar; or, the coffee auctions of the Dutch trading company" by Multatuli is a novel published in 1860. The story follows Max Havelaar, a Dutch colonial administrator who battles against corrupt government systems in Java. Through contrasting narrators—a pompous coffee merchant and a romantic apprentice—the novel exposes the brutal exploitation of Indonesian farmers under Dutch colonial rule. This powerful protest against colonial policies ultimately influenced Dutch governance and inspired nationalist movements
that would reshape the future of colonialism worldwide. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Multatuli, 1820-1887 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Nahuys, Alphonse |
| Title | Max Havelaar; or, the coffee auctions of the Dutch trading company |
| Original Publication | $United Kingdom: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Havelaar |
| Credits | Michael Roe, Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Culture conflict -- Fiction |
| Subject | Colonies -- Oceania -- Fiction |
| Subject | Dutch -- Indonesia -- Fiction |
| Subject | Java (Indonesia) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Persona (Literature) |
| Subject | Coffee industry -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 70128 |
| Release Date | Feb 24, 2023 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 934 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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