“Jakarta in late July, 1681…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Philip Hahn.For further reading:Philip Hahn, “‘Rather Back to Ceylon than to Swabia’: Global Sensory Experiences of Swabian Artisans in the Service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC),” in Embodiment, Expertise and Ethics in Early Modern Europe: Entangling the Senses (Routledge, 2020)

Connecting Distant Cities: Camels as Transportation

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