"Max Havelaar" - by Multatuli.

[The Lawspeaker]

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Max Havelaar (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Max_Havelaar_(Wikisource)) by Eduard Douwes Dekker ("Multatuli")
English translation on Wikisource.

A culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker) which was to play a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the novel, the protagonist, Max Havelaar, tries to battle against a corrupt government system in Java, which was a Dutch colony at the time.— Excerpted from Max Havelaar on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

[The Lawspeaker]

The practices that were attacked in the book were part of the so-called Cultivation System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivation_System). The final institutional abuses would have been cleared away in 1931 when the Penal Sanction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poenale_sanctie) was abolished but by then a humanitarian form of colonial rule (known as the Ethical Policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Ethical_Policy)) was already well underway.

[Heimmacht]

Nu weet ik niet zoveel van Max havelaar, maar was die Eduard nou (etnisch) Nederlands? Want hij leek gewoon op een blanke.

[Crossbow]

Jawel hoor, Eduard Douwes Dekker was een echte Nederlander:

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Douwes_Dekker