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The Dutch and English East India Companies : diplomacy, trade and violence in early modern Asia / edited by Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Clulow, Adam (Editor), Mostert, Tristan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Series:Asian history.
Subjects:
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
East India Company.
Colonial companies > Asia > History.
Colonial companies > History.
Colonial companies.
Asia.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction The Companies in Asia / Clulow, Adam / Mostert, Tristan
  • Part 1 Diplomacy
  • 1. Scramble for the spices / Mostert, Tristan
  • 2. Diplomacy in a provincial setting / Meersbergen, Guido van
  • 3. Contacting Japan / Matsukata, Fuyuko
  • Part 2 Trade
  • 4. Surat and Bombay / Chaiklin, Martha
  • 5. The English and Dutch East India Companies and Indian merchants in Surat in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Nadri, Ghulam A.
  • Part 3 Violence
  • 6. Empire by Treaty? / Ittersum, Martine van
  • 7. 'Great help from Japan' / Clulow, Adam
  • 8. The East India Company and the foundation of Persian Naval Power in the Gulf under Nader Shah, 1734-47 / Good, Peter
  • Epilog. 9. The Dutch East India Company in global history / Andrade, Tonio
  • Index.

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