Asia
Reception of the Envoys from Kandy in Colombo
This is a 1772 image by Carel Frederik Reimer depicting the reception of representatives of the King of Kandy at the Dutch East India Company’s (VOC) governor’s house in Colombo, Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka).
Dutch East India Company Embassy to India
This painting by an unknown artist depicts the meeting of Dutch East India Company (VOC) officials and the ruler of Udaipur, a city in the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan.
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
This is a painting done in the miniature style by Mughal court painter Bichitr, ca. 1615-18. The Mughal emperor Jahangir is shown holding court atop an ornate hourglass throne. The golden hourglass, European in design, highlights the global contact between Europeans and the Mughal Empire.
Taiwan Documents Project
This site seems most valuable not as an unbiased repository of information, but rather as part of the movement for Taiwanese independence and more generally as a historical case study in the politics of national identity.
Digital South Asia Library
The information and source materials presented on this site are extremely wide ranging, rare, and occasionally quite specific. Given the amount of content, this specificity should be seen as an asset rather than a drawback.
Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
Although these photographs are immediately useful to any discussion of 19th-century travel, they also provide an important look at the nature of colonialism and industrialization in many of the regions to which Jackson traveled.
East Asian Collection
Students could be encouraged to probe the social, religious, cultural, and geographic diversity of China in the early 1900s as well as the impact of momentous events upon different regions and social groups.
George Percival Scriven: An American in Bohol, The Philippines, 1899-1901
The diary could be used by teachers in a variety of ways. Its representation of the inhabitants of Bohol and of the island itself illuminate turn-of-the-century thinking on race and landscape.
Map of Malacca, Châtelain
This is a detail of a map depicting the port of Malacca and the surrounding territories from the Atlas Historique, an expansive Dutch encyclopedia compiled by Henri Abraham Châtelain and first published between 1705 to 1720.
Map of Batavia, Châtelain
This is a detail of a map depicting the Dutch stronghold of Batavia from the Atlas Historique, an expansive Dutch encyclopedia compiled by Henri Abraham Châtelain and first published between 1705 to 1720.