Max Havelaar; or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
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Called "the Book that Killed Colonialism", Max Havelaar is an indictment of the Dutch colonial policies of the 1850s that were designed to exploit the native Indonesian masses. In the novel, the protagonist, Max Havelaar, tries to battle against a corrupt government system in Java, which was then a Dutch colony. Although the novel addresses issues of a bygone era, it is still hailed widely for its literary styles and expression of thought. Translator Baron Alphonse Nahuÿs, compared Max Havelaar to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin for its exposure of the ill-treatment of a subject people by me...