| Book Review | Journal of World History, 15.3

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Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century. By LEONARD BLUSSÉ. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2002. 194+ ix pp. $38.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paperback).

Six months after Cornelia van Nijenroode married Johan Bitter in 1676, the couple took the first step in what was to become an acrimonious dispute and separation that lasted for fifteen years. Their marital troubles, exacerbated by folly, greed, and deceit, took Cornelia from Batavia in what is now Indonesia to the Netherlands. Her story becomes the lens through which to view the history of the Dutch East India Company, the evolution of the legal and administrative system for the colony and Dutch relations with China and Japan, the role of the church, and the systematic gender inequality that characterized European law in the seventeenth century.

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