The 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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2018]
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Asian history. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38620704*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
