Ruurdje Laarhoven

Dutch historian who worked the Dutch East India Company’s archives for the seventeenth-century Maguindanao sultanate.

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1989Out of print
Triumph of Moro Diplomacy
Ruurdje Laarhoven
New Day Publishers
Sultan Kudarat’s Maguindanao as the Dutch and Spanish records show it: a sultanate that held its own between two empires by diplomacy as much as by war.

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