“the Dutch [East India] Company could not even muster the basic strength required to gain respect and independence there”. While writing, de Reus named Joseph Marquis Dupleix, the governor ...

tax and animal spirits”, Books, Life & Arts, October 22) Philip Coggan overlooks the invention of the first joint-stock company in the world. The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische ...

The Dutch East India Company, or the Verenigde Oostindische ... were utterly dependent on buying and selling human beings. Book cover of Caroline Fowler, Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art ...

Founded in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company in what is now Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Colony was a way station between the Netherlands and the largely Dutch-controlled East Indies ...

Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot' Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC, known in English as the Dutch East India Company. The VOC dominated the spice trade ...

On 20 March 1602, the Dutch East India Company (‘Vereenigde Oostindische ... Dutch historian and economist Lodewijk Petram noted in his book, The World’s First Stock Exchange, that a provision ...

Even though the Portuguese were the first Europeans to colonize Indonesia, the Southeast Asian archipelago nation of more than 18,000 islands was colonized by the Dutch East India Company in the ...

Here is the full story of Virji Vora, the Gujarati businessman who gave loans to Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company. Talking about his business, Virji Vora had a wide ...

"So I don't think they [the Dutch East India Company] were very happy in Holland." The Dutch ambassador to Australia, Marion Derckx, has today unveiled a plaque at Leeuwin Lighthouse recognising ...