Wil Dijk is a Dutch academic with a Burmese background. She left Asia around the time of the Second World War and eventually studied Japanese at Leiden University. Her book comes from her work on her doctoral disseration.
Wil Dijk is a Dutch academic with a Burmese background. She left Asia around the time of the Second World War and eventually studied Japanese at Leiden University. Her book comes from her work on her doctoral disseration.
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17th-Century Burma and the Dutch East India Company 1634-1680
Broadens, indeed transforms, our understanding of 17th-century Burmese trade and political economy. Wil Dijk has unearthed and explored exceptionally rich Dutch sources that no one suspected existed.