"Grand Dessert" celebrates the history of dessert, and art inspired by it, at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands.

Pirates and the loot they plundered have long fascinated us. Stories like "Treasure Island" and movies like "Pirates of the ...

The French imperial enterprise in India was off to an unpromising start. Small wonder it took over half a century to ...

Lucknow's French connection began during Mughal Emperor Jahangir's time, with French merchants establishing trade and building mansions. Later, Frenchmen like Jean Baptiste Gentil and Charles Emmanuel ...

Lesley Jacobs Solmonson explains how liqueurs went from the hands of the apothecary to those of the mixologist.

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

Robert Clive had joined the East ... Dutch, Danes, British and French traders, especially to Sarkar Saran and the adjoining areas. After a series of wars and diplomatic manoeuvres, the East India ...

In his book, David Zee writes ... the coastal regions of southern Guangdong province and eastern Fujian province working for the Dutch East India Company in Southeast Asia. After the Dutch sailors’ ...

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 ...

Pulicat, once a bustling port under the Dutch East India Company, holds a prominent place in India’s colonial history. The cemetery, with its towering tombs and intricate carvings, reflects the ...

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 ...