“Jakarta in late July, 1681…”
So begins today’s story from Dr. Philip Hahn.
For further reading:
Philip Hahn, “‘Rather Back to Ceylon than to Swabia’: Global Sensory Experiences of Swabian Artisans in the Service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC),” in Embodiment, Expertise and Ethics in Early Modern Europe: Entangling the Senses (Routledge, 2020)
