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Four Hundred Years On: The Public Commemoration of the Founding of the VOC in 2002

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

Leonard Blussé
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In our Age of the Discovery of Space, many people still enjoy commemorating the Age of Global Exploration and Discovery. In 1992, the 500th anniversary of Columbus' epic voyage to the Caribbean islands off the American continent was celebrated in Spain and America, and in 1998 and 2000 Portugal also commemorated its Age of Descobrimentos in Africa, South America and Asia. Various campaigns are underway in China to celebrate in 2004 the 600th (!) anniversary of the great expeditions by Admiral Zheng Ho to South Asia and Africa. Most of these festivities, meant to foster international awareness in the current Age of Globalisation, have met with mixed reactions among the peoples who were ‘discovered’.

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Itinerario , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 79 - 92
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2003

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1 The shipping museums published a beautiful ‘National Jubilee book VOC’, full of stunning pictures: Akveld, Leo and Jacobs, Els M. eds, De kleurrijke wereld van de VOC (Bussum 2002)Google Scholar , while Kees Zandvliet a.o. wrote historical essays on various aspects of the Dutch presence in Asia (both in Dutch and English versions) for the equally attractively illustrated catalogue of the Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum: The Dutch Encounter with Asia 1600-1950 (Zwolle 2002)Google Scholar.

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3 Part of the present essay is derived from the speech which was delivered in Dutch.

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14 For further information on the TANAP project see the website http://www.tanap.net, or the brochure available with IGEER, History Department, Leiden University.