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East Indies : The 200 Year Struggle Between the Portuguese Crown, the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company for Supremacy in the Eastern Seas by Ian Burnet (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRosenberg Publishing Pty, The Limited
ISBN-101921719591
ISBN-139781921719592
eBay Product ID (ePID)166513976
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameEast Indies : The 200 Year Struggle Between the Portuguese Crown, the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company for Supremacy in the Eastern Seas
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAsia / General, General
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
AuthorIan Burnet
Subject AreaHistory
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight26.5 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width7.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
SynopsisFollows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the portcities across the East Indies and the Orient uncovering the high finance, piracy, greed, ambition, double dealing, and exploitation. Driven by the searchfor spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains and other oriental goods thePortuguese trading monopoly was challenged by the Dutch East India Company andthen the English East India Company, the world's first joint stock andmulti-national trading companies. The struggle for supremacybetween the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English ranged across the EasternSeas and in the settlements of Goa, Malacca, Ambon, Macao, Canton, Nagasaki,Solor, Batavia, Macassar, Johor and Singapore for 250 years. The story is told by the history of these port cities,beginning with Malacca - one of the world's largest trading ports in 16thcentury - and ending with the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong., In 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and the Portuguese became the first Europeans to sail the Eastern Seas in search of spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains, and other oriental goods. Over the next 100 years, the Portuguese spread their trading network from India as far north as China and Japan, and as far east as Timor in the eastern end of the Indonesian Archipelago. In 1595 and 1601 respectively, the first Dutch and English trading expeditions rounded the Cape of Good Hope and soon the trading monopoly of the Portuguese Crown was being challenged by the Dutch East India Company and then the English East India Company, the world's first joint stock and multi-national trading companies. For the next 250 years, the struggle for supremacy between the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English was to range across the Eastern Seas and in the settlements of Goa, Malacca, Ambon, Macao, Canton, Nagasaki, Solor, Batavia, Macassar, Johor, and Singapore. This book follows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the port cities across the East Indies and the Orient. The story is told by the history of these port cities, beginning in Malacca, which was one of the world's largest trading ports in the 16th century, and finishing with the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong, which became some of the world's largest trading ports in the 20th century., This book follows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the port cities across the East Indies and the Orient. High finance, piracy, greed, ambition, double dealing, exploitation all is here. Driven by the search for spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains and other oriental goods the Portuguese trading monopoly was challenged by the Dutch East India Company and then the English East India Company, the world's first joint stock and multi-national trading companies. The struggle for supremacy between the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English ranged across the Eastern Seas and in the settlements of Goa, Malacca, Ambon, Macao, Canton, Nagasaki, Solor, Batavia, Macassar, Johor and Singapore for 250 years. Visitors to these destination will be interested in this book. The story is told by the history of these port cities, beginning with Malacca -- one of the world's largest trading ports in 16th century and ending with the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong.
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