This column appeared in the MHM newsletter of June 2015. In May the biography ‘Jan Pieterszoon Coen, 1587-1629 Koopman-Koning in Azië’ by the historian Jur van Goor was published. I have not read the book yet, but according to an interview in the newspaper Trouw of 23 May, the historian revises the bad reputation of the VOC commander. […]