Screen LibraryThe Dutch and English East India Companies : diplomacy, trade and violence in early modern Asia /
The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organisations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, raise armies and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without res...
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Amsterdam University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Asian history
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| Summary: |
The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organisations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, raise armies and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without resistance. Early modern Asia stood at the center of the global economy and was home to powerful states and sprawling commercial networks. The companies may have been global enterprises but they operated in a globalised region in which they encountered a range of formidable competitors who frequently outmaneuvered or outfought their representatives. This groundbreaking collection of essays explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers, and brokers. With contributions from the most innovative historians in the field, this book presents new ways to understand these organisations by focusing on their diplomatic, commercial, and military interactions with Asia. |
| Item Description: | "This volume grew out of a 2015 conference held at the International Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg at the University of Heidelberg."--Page 11. |
| Carrier Form: | 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789462983298 9462983291 |
| Index Number: | HF481 |
| CLC: |
F755.619-532 F755.639-532 F753.09-532 |
| Call Number: | F753.09-532/D975/2015 |
| Contents: |
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Companies in Asia; Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert; Part 1. Diplomacy; 1. Scramble for the spices; Makassar's role in European and Asian Competition in the Eastern Archipelago up to 1616; Tristan Mostert; 2. Diplomacy in a provincial setting; The East India Companies in seventeenth-century Bengal and Orissa*; Guido van Meersbergen; 3. Contacting Japan; East India Company Letters to the Shogun; Fuyuko Matsukata; Part 2. Trade; 4. Surat and Bombay; Ivory and commercial networks in western India; Martha Chaiklin 5. The English and Dutch East India Companies and Indian merchants in Surat in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesInterdependence, competition and contestation; Ghulam A. Nadri; Part 3. Violence; 6. Empire by Treaty?; The role of written documents in European overseas expansion, 1500-1800; Martine van Ittersum; 7. 'Great help from Japan'; The Dutch East India Company's experiment with Japanese soldiers; Adam Clulow; 8. The East India Company and the foundation of Persian Naval Power in the Gulf under Nader Shah, 1734-47; Peter Good; Epilogue 9. The Dutch East India Company in global historyA historiographical reconnaissance; Tonio Andrade; Index |