The Dutch and English East India Companies : diplomacy, trade and violence in early modern Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Clulow, Adam (Editor), Mostert, Tristan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Series:Asian history.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the companies in Asia / Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert
  • Diplomacy. Scramble for the spices : Makassar's role in European and Asian competition in the Eastern Archipelago up to 1616 / Tristan Mostert
  • Diplomacy in a provincial setting / The East India Companies in seventeenth-century Bengal and Orissa / Guido van Meersbergen
  • Contacting Japan / East India Company letters to the shogun / Fuyuko Matsukata
  • Trade. Surat and Bombay : ivory and commercial networks in western India / Martha Chaiklin
  • The English and Dutch East India Companies and Indian merchants in Surat in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : interdependence, competition, and contestaton / Ghulam A. Nadri
  • Violence. Empire by treaty? : the role of written documents in European overseas expansion, 1500-1800 / Martine van Ittersum
  • 'Great help from Japan' : the Dutch East India Company's experiment with Japanase soldiers / Adam Clulow
  • The East India Company and the foundation of Persian naval power in the Gulf under Nader Shah, 1734-47 / Peter Good
  • Epilogue. The Dutch East India Company in global history / Tonio Andrade.