Max Havelaar

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Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Dutch: Max Havelaar; of, De koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappij) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Image: Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887), Unknown author cover design, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.