Jur van Goor
Jur van Goor is professor emeritus at the University of Utrecht, where he taught in the history of colonialism and decolonisation.
Non-Fiction
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He has published several studies of Dutch colonialism, the last of these being Indische avonturen. Opmerkelijke ontmoetingen met een andere wereld (Adventures in the East Indies. Notable encounters with a different world, 2000). In 2015 he published Jan Pieterszoon Coen, 1587-1629. Koopman-koning in Azië, a biography of VOC governor-general Pieterszoon Coen.