UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
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Dr Alfons van der Kraan School of Economics University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 TeL: 02 67 732524 Fax: 02 67 733596 Email: avanderk@metz.une.edu.au |
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UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
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Dr Alfons van der Kraan School of Economics University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 TeL: 02 67 732524 Fax: 02 67 733596 Email: avanderk@metz.une.edu.au |
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Dr Van der Kraan was born in the Netherlands and educated there, in Canada and in Australia. He has specialised in the economic development of Southeast Asia and has been a tutor at the Australian National University in Canberra, a lecturer at Murdoch University in Perth, and a Visiting Fellow at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has published extensively on the economic history of Indonesia, especially the islands of Java, Bali and Lombok. He has an ineterst also in the history of technology and has published in that field. Currently, Dr Van der Kraan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics, University of New England.
Research interests and current research projects related to Asia:
1) The Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Asia;
2) Ryckloff van Goens: His Life and Times, 1619-82.
1) "Anthony van Diemen: Patron of Voyages of Discovery, 1636-45";
2) "Blood for Cinnamon: Ryckloff van Goens and the Dutch Conquest of
Ceylon, 1656-57".
Recent publications:
Bali at War: A History of the Dutch-Balinese Conflict of 1846-49, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Monographs on Southeast Asia, Monash University, Melbourne, 1995, pp. x + 240.
Contest for the Java Cotton Trade, 1811-40: An Episode in Anglo-Dutch Rivalry, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Occasional Papers, no. 32, University of Hull, 1998. pp. xi + 67.
"Lombok under the Mataram Dynasty, 1834-94", in Reid, A. (ed.), The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies: Responses to Modernity in Diverse States of Southeast Asia, 1750-1900, Macmillan, London, 1997, pp. 389-410.
"On Company Business: The Ryckloff van Goens Mission to Siam, 1650", Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas History, Leiden University, Leiden, 1998, pp. 42-84.
"A Baptism of Fire: The Van Goens Mision to Ceylon, Vengurla and Surat, 1653-54", UNEAC Asia Papers, no. 2, 1999, pp. 1-50 + map.
"A Merchant Armed: The Van Goens Mission to Ceylon and India, 1653-54", Part 1, The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association of Maritime History, 1999, Vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 46-62.
"A Merchant Armed: The Van Goens Mission to Ceylon and India, 1653-54", Part 2, The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association of Maritime History, 1999, Vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 73-108.
"The Dutch in Siam: Jeremias van Vliet and the 1636 Incident at Ayutthaya", UNEAC Asia Paper, no. 3, 2000, pp. 1-14.
[Translated, Edited and Annotated] "At the Court of King Prasat-Thong: An Early 17th Century Account by Jeremias van Vliet", UNEAC Asia Paper, no. 3, 2000, pp. 15-51.
"Bali: Slavery and Slave Trade", reprinted in Stanley Engerman, Drescher, S. and Paquette, R. (eds), Slavery, Oxford Readers, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001, pp. 193-196.
"The Dutch East India Company, Christiaan Huygens and the Marine Clock, 1682-95", Prometheus, Vol. 19, no. 4, 2001, pp. 1-20.