The Dutch and English East India Companies Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia / edited by Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clulow, Adam.

Contributor:

Mostert, Tristan, editor.

Clulow, Adam, editor.

Universität Heidelberg.

Internationales Wissenschaftsforum.

Series:

Asian history.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East India Company.

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--History.

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.

History.

Asia--History.

Asia.

Physical Description:

263 páginas ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

"Este volumen tiene su origen en la Conferencia celebrada en Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg at the University of Heidelberg."

Bibliografía .- Índices

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ISBN:

1-04-079965-5

1-003-70584-7

1-04-077375-3

90-485-3338-4

9781003705840

OCLC:

1097121827

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access