Femme Simon Gaastra
Curriculum vitae
1945 | born in Leeuwarden on July 23 juli |
1965-1972 | studied history, Leiden University |
1972-1973 | researcher Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research |
1973-1974 | teacher history, Haarlem |
1974-2004 | associate professor history, Leiden University |
1989 | PhD under the supervision of J.R. Bruijn, Leiden University |
2004-2010 | professor maritime history, Leiden University |
2010-present | emeritus professor |
Sources
Publications on South Asia
Gaastra’s publications on Dutch maritime history, on the VOC in general and on the VOC in Southeast Asia are not included. For his complete bibliography up to 2010, see Maurits Ebben et al. (eds),Alle streken van het kompas: maritieme geschiedenis in Nederland, opstellen … aangeboden aan Femme S. Gaastra bij zijn afscheid als hoogleraar zeegeschiedenis aan de Universiteit Leiden, Zutphen 2010, pp. 335-346.
1979 & J.R. Bruijn and I. Schöffer with assist. from A.C.J. Vermeulen (eds), Dutch-Asiatic shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries, vol. 2: Outward-bound voyages from the Netherlands to Asia and the Cape (1595-1794), with assistance of E.S. van Eyck van Heslinga, The Hague: Nijhoff (Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën 166).
– & J.R. Bruijn and I. Schöffer with assist. from A.C.J. Vermeulen (eds), Dutch-Asiatic shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries, vol. 3: Homeward-bound voyages from Asia and the Cape to the Netherlands (1597-1795), with assistance of E.S. van Eyck van Heslinga, The Hague: Nijhoff (Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën 167).
1981 Review of: A. Das Gupta, Indian merchants and the decline of Surat c. 1700-1750, Wiesbaden 1979. Itinerario 5,1: 100.
1982 Review of: C.R. Boxer, Portuguese India in the mid-seventeenth century, Delhi 1980. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 1: 62.
1985 “Constantijn Ranst en de corruptie onder het personeel van de VOC te Bengalen, 1669-1673.” In: S. Groenveld et al. (eds), Bestuurders en geleerden: opstellen over onderwerpen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis van de zestiende, zeventiende en achttiende eeuw, aangeboden aan Prof. Dr. J.J. Woltjer bij zijn afscheid als hoogleraar van de Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Amsterdam, pp. 126-136.
1987 & J.R. Bruijn and I. Schöffer with assist. from A.C.J. Vermeulen (eds), Dutch-Asiatic shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries, vol. 1: Introductory volume, The Hague: Nijhoff (Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën 165).
1988 “Ceylon als ‘handelscomptoir’ van de VOC.” In: R. Kromhout (ed.), Het machtige eyland: Ceylon en de V.O.C., Den Haag 1988, pp. 29-36.
1989 Bewind en beleid bij de VOC: de financiële en commerciële politiek van de bewindhebbers, 1672-1702, Zutphen: [Walburg Pers], 343 p. – PhD thesis Leiden University.
1995 Review of: A. Das Gupta, Merchants of maritime India, 1500-1800, Aldershot 1994; and of: O. Prakash, Precious metals and commerce: the Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean, Aldershot 1994. Itinerario 19,1: 109-110.
1996 “The textile trade of the VOC: the Dutch response to the English challenge.” South Asia 19: 85-95.
– “The experience of travelling to the Dutch East Indies via the Overland Route, 1844-1869.” In: G. Jackson et al. (eds), Shipping, technology and imperialism: papers presented to the Third British-Dutch Maritime History Conference, Aldershot, pp. 120-144.
– “The role of British capital in financing the trade of the VOC factory in Bengal, c. 1760-1795.” In: J. Everaert and J. Parmentier (eds), International Conference on shipping, factories and colonization, Brussels, 24-26 november 1994, Brussel : Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen, pp.
– & Pieter Emmer (eds), The organization of interoceanic trade in European expansion, 1450-1800, Aldershot [etc.]: Variorum.
1999 “British capital for the VOC in Bengal.” In: O. Prakash and D. Lombard (eds), Commerce and culture in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1800, New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 261-284.
– “Competition or collaboration: relations between the Dutch East India Company and Indian merchants around 1680.” In: S. Chaudhuri and M. Morineau (eds), Merchants, companies and trade: Europe and Asia in the early modern era, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 189-201.
– Review of: K.D. Paranavitana (ed.), Journal of Spitsbergen: the first Dutch envoy to Ceylon, 1602, Dehiwala 1998. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 18: 79.
2000 Review of: O. Prakash, European commercial enterprise in pre-colonial India, Cambridge 1998 (The New Cambridge History of India II,5). Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 19: 55-56.
2001 “De VOC en EIC in Bengalen aan de vooravond van de Vierde Engelse Oorlog.” Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 20: 24-35.
2002 Review of: J. Gommans et al., Dutch sources on South Asia, 1600-1825, vol. 1: Bibliography and archival guide to the National Archives at the Hague (The Netherlands), Delhi 2001. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 21: 60-61.
2003 Review of: R.J. Barendse, The Arabian seas: the Indian Ocean world of the seventeenth century, Armonk, N.Y., [etc.], 2002, rev. and enl. ed. of Leiden 1998. International Journal of Maritime History 15,2: 388-390.