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 |
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| Author:
| Burnet, Ian |
| ISBN: | 978-1-921719-59-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | Rosenberg Publishing Pty, Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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Follows 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...
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Follows 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.