Historical Sites of Jakarta  | Subtitle :
Abstract :
Jakarta, once the Queen City of the East, changes very fast. More and more building and objects of its past disappear in our time. But there is still much more to be seen than most people, even longtime residents, are aware of. There are old mansions, colonial fortification, churches, mosques and Chinese temples with a colourful cosmopolitan background. Many races, nearly all great religions of our world, and most different cultures have contributed to the development of Jakarta. For centuries this city has been the centre of a web of sea-based trading posts scattered between Cape Town in South Africa and Surat in North India to the islet of Deshima in Japan. Textiles and indigo from india were traded for Indonesian spices, these in turn bought Chinese tea, silks and porcelains which were exchanged for the silver and copper of Japan. From Europe silver and gold coins were used to buy at very cheap prices all goods of the East in order to sell them in Amsterdam for big profits,
Besides being centre of vast trading emporium, Jakarta developed more and more into the main city of the Indonesian archipelago
This book leads the reader to what still remains of this colourful past in present-day Jakarta, which today as the capital of modern Indonesia again occupies a central position.
Registration No : B2307
Author :
A. Heuken Sj.
Edition :
Impresum : Jakarta: Yayasan Cipta Loka Jakarta, 2000
Description :
Language : English
ISBN
Classification:
1. 300 - SOSIO-CULTURAL COMMUNITY / 310.1.3 - CULTURE & INFORMATION - Culture and Arts - Museum, Archives and Libraries
Keyword :
1 history
Availability :
Hard copies 1 of 1
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