
VOC
A Bibliography of Publications Relating to the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1800
John Landwehr(Author)
Brill | Hes & De Graaf (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1991
Book
Hardback
840 pages
978-90-6194-497-3 (ISBN)
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Description
At the height of its power and influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth century the VOC - acronym for the United Netherland East India Company - was the greatest commercial concern in the world. The scope of its activities extended from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan. In some aspects, the Baltic trade and the North Sea fisheries were of more fundamental relevance for the economy of the Lowlands. But it was the more spectacular East Indian trade which aroused the admiration and the envy of foreigners, sometimes to the point of war. In this bibliography several topics are covered. Not only technical matters such as the legal status of the VOC, its management, directors and shareholders, but also subjects as voyages, battles, ship building, navigation, geography, natural history, ethnography, mission work, ministration, and many others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
Dimensions
Height: 270 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
2630 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-6194-497-3 (9789061944973)
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Persons
John Landwehr was employed by a trading company in the Far East (1949-1954). He worked in the ancient VOC House in Djakarta built by Governor General Baron Van Imhoff in the 18th century.