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 could not even muster the basic strength required to gain respect and independence there”. While writing, de Reus named Joseph Marquis Dupleix, the governor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...