Tristan Mostert
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. T. Mostert
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1307
- t.mostert@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Tristan Mostert is a lecturer at the Institute for History.
Research
Tristan Mostert (1981) investigates the conflict between the Southeast Asian state of Makassar and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the mid-17th century. His main interest is in the relevance of this conflict for current debates global military history, but his study takes a broad approach and includes the position that the cosmopolitan trading port of Makassar had within cultural, economic and political networks throughout the Asian maritime world.
Curriculum vitae
Tristan studied global and colonial history at Leiden University. He completed his research master in 2007 (cum laude) with a thesis on the military system that the Dutch East India Company (VOC) built up over the first decades of its existence, and the way in which this system was put to practice in the years 1655-1663. He subsequently held various positions as a teacher, curator, researcher and educator at various museums and cultural institutions, including the Bataviawerf, the Rijksmuseum and the Openluchtmuseum Arnhem. He obtained his PhD in 2023 with a dissertation on ‘Spice War. Ternate, Makassar, the Dutch East India Company and the struggle for the Ambon Islands c. 1600-1656’.
Postdoc
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Algemene Geschiedenis
- Mostert T. (2023), Inleiding: persoonlijke verhalen op of overzee, Leidschrift 38(2): 1-14.
- Mostert T. (2023), Review of: Brock A.L., Meersbergen G. van & Smith E. (2022), Trading companies and travel knowledge in the early modern world. Hakluyt society studies in the history of travel no. 1: Routledge. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 42(2): 99-102.
- Streefkerk T., De Jong P. & Mostert T. 27 October 2023, Tim en Paul en de Molukken. Tim en Paul Geschiedenis podcast 4.30 [podcast].
- Mostert T. (28 March 2023), Spice War: Ternate, Makassar, the Dutch East India Company and the struggle for the Ambon Islands (c. 1600-1656) (Dissertatie. Leiden University Institute for History, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Schoenmaker B. & Gommans J.J.L., Wellen K.
- Mostert T. (2022), 1625: de Nassause Vloot begint de Ambonse oorlogen. In: Voss H.L. van, Bouras N., 't Hart M.C., Heijden M.P.C. van der, Lucassen L.A.C.J. & Schillings M. (Eds.), Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland. Amsterdam: Ambo/Anthos.
- Mostert T. (2022) Milieu-oorlog is overal en wildernis bestaat niet: Kreike’s vogelvluchtperspectief op environmental warfare. Review of: Emmanuel Kreike (2021), Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature: Princeton University Press. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 135(1): 117-120.
- Mostert T. (2021), Suppliers, knowledge brokers and brothers in arms: Portuguese aspects of military innovation in Makassar. In: Carvalhal H., Murteira A. & Jesus R.L. de (Eds.), The First World Empire: Portugal, War and Military Revolution: Routledge.
- Mostert T (2021), Review of: Laver M. (2020), The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy: Bloomsbury. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 40(1).
- Mostert T. (2021), Coen op Banda, 1621: Hoe de VOC een samenleving verwoestte, Geschiedenis Magazine : .
- Mostert T. & Brouwer L. (2021), Chinese pirates in a Norfolk cabinet: an art-historical discovery at Felbrigg Hall, National Trust Arts, Building and Collection Bulletin 1(2021): 23-27.
- Mostert T. & Manuhutu W., 1621: geweld en ontvolking op en rond Banda . Hoorn (Westfries Museum). [web article].
- Clulow A. & Mostert T. (2020), The Dutch East India Company and business diplomacy, Diplomatica: a journal of diplomacy and society 1(2): .
- Mostert T. (2020), De Ambonse Moord, Geschiedenis Magazine (1): .
- Mostert T. & Weber A. (2019), ‘“Historians should explore rather than sticking with what they know”: Interview with Professor Harold Cook, Brown University, Itinerario (2): .
- Clulow A. & Mostert T. (2018), The Dutch and English East India Companies Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia.
- Mostert T. (2018), Scramble for the spices: Makassar’s role in European and Asian Competition in the Eastern Archipelago up to 1616. In: Clulow A. & Mostert T. (Eds.), The Dutch and English East India Companies. Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia 13-24.
- Mostert T. (2018), 9. Tropenmuseum – Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Amsterdam. In: Veys W., Lythberg B. & Douglas B. (Eds.), Collecting in the South Sea. The Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 1791-1794 149-154.
- Mostert T. (2018) Review of: Kuruppath M. (2017) Staging Asia: The Dutch East India Company and the Amsterdam Theatre. Review of: Kuruppath M. (2017), Staging Asia: The Dutch East India Company and the Amsterdam Theatre. Leiden: Leiden University Press. Itinerario 41(3): 631-632.
- Mostert T. & Veer A. van der (2018), Economisch onmisbaar maar politiek kop van jut: Chinezen in Batavia, Geschiedenis Magazine : 17-22.
- Ittersum M. van, Gottman F. & Mostert T. (2016), Writing Global History and Its Challenges—A Workshop with Jürgen Osterhammel and Geoffrey Parker, Itinerario 40(3): 357-376.
- Andrade T. & Mostert T. (2016), De VOC maakte Taiwan ‘Chinees’, Geschiedenis Magazine (3): .
- Mostert T. & Campen J. van (2015), Zijden Draad: China en Nederland sinds 1600 / Silk Thread: China and the Netherlands since 1600: VanTilt / Rijksmuseum.
- Mostert T. (2015), 'Ick vertrouwe dat de werelt hem naer dien op twee polen keert': De VOC, de rijksbestuurder van Makassar en een uitzonderlijk grote globe. In: Wagenaar L. (Ed.), Aan de overkant: ontmoetingen in dienst van VOC en WIC (1600-1800). Leiden: Sidestone Press. 77-96.
- Mostert T. (2015) Bronwen Douglas, Science, Voyages and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850. Review of: Douglas B. (2014), Science, Voyages and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850. Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Itinerario 39(2): 392-394.
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