This study offers an in-depth analysis of the decline of the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) and the subsequent domination of the British Empire in Asia. Author Nierstrasz (Europe's Asian Cent
In Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, Holden Furber attributed the success and failure of East India Companies to the way they organised their trade in Asia. This new study expands this focus to co
The imperative of the long-distance seaborne trade of Europeans, from the age of exploration, was to acquire the goods of the exotic East – the silks and porcelains and tea of China, the spices of the
