Gateway to the West: The Dutch Language in Colonial Indonesia 1600-1950. a History of Language Policy

by Kees Groeneboer

This history of language policy traces the fortunes of Dutch in the East Indies from the arrival of the first Dutchmen in the Indonesian archipelago at the end of the sixteenth century to the transfer of sovereignty in 1949.
Groeneboer explores the authorities' intentions with regard to Dutch and the roles it actually played, surrounded as it was by many other languages. Besides official government policy, ideas and practices in education, missions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9053563237
• ISBN13: 9789053563236
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"