Max Havelaar
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Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company is an 1860 novel by Multatuli, which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the
Front cover of Max Havelaar, 5th edition (1881)
Page from the manuscript of 1860
Cover of the NYRB Classics release
Lauriergracht
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The Lauriergracht is one of the canals of Amsterdam, located in the Jordaan, west of the Grachtengordel.
Max Havelaar
…colony. The novel's opening line is famous: "Ik ben makelaar in koffie, en woon op de Lauriergracht, Nº 37." ("I am a coffee broker, and live on the Lauriergracht, Nº 37."). By the mid-nineteenth century, the colonial control of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) had passed from the Dutch East India…
Lauriergracht numbers 1 to 9, an 1895 photograph from the George Hendrik Breitner collection
Johan Diderik Cornelis Veltens painting of the Beuker & Hulshoff sugar factory that used to be on the Lauriergracht, in the Amsterdam Museum
Amsterdam Oude Zijds Kolk