Search Results for Dutch East India Company (VOC)

... this as a “tributary mode of production” (72), following Eric R. Wolf ( 1982 ) and Jairus Banaji ( 2010 ). For the Dutch East India Company empire in South and Southeast Asia, it can be established that (1) at the peak of its power, the influence and impact of the VOC in various instances reached inland far beyond...

.... What is more, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) “did not have a dominant position in Dutch merchant shipping, let alone in the Dutch economy as a whole” (pp. 60–61). Enlivened by comparisons with other European maritime empires, especially Portugal and England, in The Dutch Overseas Empire...

..., the authorities of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Amboyna (present-day Kota Ambon) arrested Shichizo, a Japanese mercenary whom the Dutch suspected of treachery. Under torture, Shichizo named his co-conspirators, who were all brought in for questioning. Two weeks later, he was beheaded. But along...

... slavery and colonialism. Slavery at the onset of British rule in 1796 was a product of the 150 years of Dutch East India Company (VOC) control of the maritime areas of Sri Lanka. It had two distinct forms: a mostly urban domestic servitude, imposed on people who had originally been brought to Sri Lanka...

... (paper). Reinout Vos's study of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)'s relations with Palembang and Johor will be welcomed by students of European expansion and BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 639 Malay history. Vos has used the voluminous records of the VOC to good effect, and his book charts the events...

... of the Netherlands State Archives, the late Dr. M. A. P. Meilink-Roelofsz and the late Dr. M. E. van Opstall. They selected the fifteen articles, by as many authors, that represent early Dutch historiography on the United Dutch East India Company (VOC). The articles were originally published between 1865 and 1976...

... of the Netherlands State Archives, the late Dr. M. A. P. Meilink-Roelofsz and the late Dr. M. E. van Opstall. They selected the fifteen articles, by as many authors, that represent early Dutch historiography on the United Dutch East India Company (VOC). The articles were originally published between 1865 and 1976...

... Dutch East India Company (VOC), for instance, was much more concerned about profitability and control than implementing an effective language policy. Keeping the majority of the "natives" ignorant of Dutch and Western ways usually seemed the more practical policy for the interests of the businessmen...

... The Australian National University Gentle Janus, Merchant Prince: The VOC and the Tightrope of Diplomacy in the Malay World, 1740-1800. By REINOUT VOS. Translated by BEVERLY JACKSON. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1993. vi, 252 pp. $29-00 (paper). Reinout Vos's study of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)'s relations...

... India Company (VOC) and the kingdom of Riau-Johor in the "Betsy Affair" of the late eighteenth century; Muhammad Gade Ismail studies the manner in which the Chinese kongsis came to control trade in the interior of Sambas in the early nineteenth century; Frans van Baardewijk explains the differing...

... the Dutch East India Company (VOC) can be compared to the Inner Asian nomads who are important to the rest of his story. Of course the VOC was important in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and of course the Dutch state that succeeded it profoundly affected the Indonesian archipelago...

...). DUTTA, Sudipt. Family Business in India. New Delhi: Response, 1997. 267 pp. $38.95 (cloth). FLOOR, Willem. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and Diewel-Sind (Pakistan). Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, 1993-94. vi, 97 pp. $6.00 (cloth). FOSSE, Lars Martin. The Crux of Chronology...

... . Blussé Leonard . 1986 b. “The Story of an Ecological Disaster: The Dutch East India Company and Batavia (1619–1799).” In Strange Company: Chinese Settlers, Mestizo Women, and the Dutch in VOC Batavia . Dordrecht and Riverton : Foris Publications . Blussé Leonard . 1995 “Retribution...

... Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 In this innovative study of diplomatic relations between the Dutch East India Company, (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, hereafter VOC), and Tokugawa Japan, Adam Clulow contributes to revisionist scholarship that pushes back the ascendancy of Europe over East Asia...

... Europe. VOC success in East Asia and Southeast Asia was not, however, matched in South Asia, according to Lach and Van Kley. Seeking to control the cinnamon trade in Ceylon, the Dutch began attacks in 1632, yet they could not drive out the Portuguese until 1658. Since Raja Sinha had helped them...

... of Cirebon its locale, and the half century preceding the massacre of the Chinese in Batavia by the Dutch East India company in 1740 its period. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 List of References Archival Materials Cirebon Contracts . Copy-Book of Cirebon Contracts...

... 1961, 7, 24 25; Dobbin 1983, 72-76; Reid 1993, 7-20, 257). Pepper cultivation received a boost from the arrival in the archipelago of the Dutch Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC, also known as the Dutch East Indies Company) and the English East India Company (EIC) around 1600. These northern...

... to the history of VOC (Vereenigde Oosk-Indische Compagnie, or the Dutch East India Company) activities in Ayuthaya and also to the social and economic history of that Thai kingdom. It is a distinctive work in many respects. Historical writing on the modern period of Southeast Asia has tended...

... as the potential to take control over their individual lives. British rule that took over areas controlled by the Dutch East India Company or Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie—first in the guise of the East India Company (1796–1802), then under the Crown (1802–1948)—introduced a number of measures, acts...

... to the history of VOC (Vereenigde Oosk-Indische Compagnie, or the Dutch East India Company) activities in Ayuthaya and also to the social and economic history of that Thai kingdom. It is a distinctive work in many respects. Historical writing on the modern period of Southeast Asia has tended...