Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs, 1600-1834
Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs, 1600-1834

Author: British Library. Oriental and India Office Collections

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13:

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This catalogue provides a complete overview of the English East India Company's shipping from its formation in 1600 until it ceased to trade after the Charter Act of 1833. Arranged by ship name, it details over 4500 voyages to Asia performed by 1474 separate ships and gives the references for nearly 10,000 journals, logs and associated account books whihc survive in the company's archives at the British Library.

Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya
Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya

Author: Bhawan Ruangsilp

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9004156003

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This book deals with the early modern Dutch-Thai interactions as told by the merchants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who concurrently tried to find a balance between their 'partnership' with and 'sense of differences' from the Thai elite.

The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan
The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan

Author: Michael Laver

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-04-16

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1350126055

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Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries. Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well as exhaustive secondary research conducted in Dutch, English, and Japanese, this new study fills an important gap in our knowledge of European-Japanese relations. It will also be of great interest to anyone studying the history of material culture and cross-cultural relations in a global context.