Genesis and nemesis of the first Dutch colonial empire in Asia and South Africa, 1596-1811 / by Gerrit Knaap.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prelude to Empire -- Foundation of Empire -- Expansion of Empire -- Consolidation of Empire -- Demise of Empire -- The Empire's Naval and Army personnel -- The Empire's ships, fortifications and weapons -- The Empire's voyages, garrisons and military practices -- The First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East: Empire among empires.

Intro -- Contents -- Expansion in History Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Prelude to Empire -- 1 A Young Nation Ready for Ocean-Going Expansion -- 2 Proto-Companies on the Way to Asia -- 3 Proto-Companies on the Road to Unity -- 4 The VOC in a European Context -- 5 Conclusion -- 2 Foundation of Empire -- 1 The VOC's Role in Asia According to the Instructions Issued to the Admirals -- 2 The First Admirals: War, Success and Stagnation -- 3 Governor-General Pieter Both, His Instruction and the Twelve Years' Truce -- 4 Coen's First Term of Office: Batavia, the English, Banda, the Iberians -- 5 Coen Back Home and His Second Term of Office in the Empire -- 6 Conclusion -- 3 Expansion of Empire -- 1 Van Diemen against Portugal: Blockades, Sieges, Conquests -- 2 Gunboat Diplomacy, Special Theatres of War, Remote Places -- 3 Endgame with Portugal: Ceylon, Malabar and Other Theatres of War -- 4 Difficulties with the English and the French -- 5 The Cloves Secured: Amboina -- 6 The Cloves Secured: Maluku -- 7 Formosa Won and Lost -- 8 Finale in the Eastern Archipelago: Makassar -- 9 Ceylon: Van Goens' War against Kandy and Other Troubles -- 10 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Mataram -- 11 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Bantam -- 12 Conclusion -- 4 Consolidation of Empire -- 1 Consolidation versus Intervention -- 2 The First Two Javanese Succession Wars -- 3 In the Northern Arabian Sea: Slow Retreat from a Far Periphery -- 4 The VOC in Malabar: From Strength to Weakness -- 5 The Chinese Massacre in Batavia and the Chinese War in Mataram -- 6 The High Government between Factionalism and Reform -- 7 The Third Javanese War of Succession and the Division of Mataram -- 8 Problems in the Eastern Archipelago: Wajo, Gowa, Timor and Tidore -- 9 Problems at Java's Western and Eastern Fringes -- 10 Problems in the Malakka Straits and Expansion in Borneo -- 11 Dutch Hegemony in Ceylon Secured: The War with Kandy -- 12 European Confrontations: The French and the Ostendeners -- 13 European Confrontations: The Seven Years' War -- 14 Conclusion -- 5 Demise of Empire -- 1 The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War -- 2 Further Problems in Malabar, the Malakka Straits, Borneo and Tidore -- 3 New Initiatives for a Better Defence -- 4 Revolution in Europe -- 5 The First British Assault -- 6 The Peace of Amiens and the Resumption of Hostilities -- 7 Marshall Daendels in Java -- 8 The Second British Assault, the End of Dutch Empire -- 9 Conclusion -- 6 The Empire's Naval and Army Personnel -- 1 Recruitment of Personnel in the Netherlands and Europe -- 2 From the Netherlands to the East and Back -- 3 Conditions of the Military Men and the Sailors after Arrival in the East -- 4 Temporary Armed Forces: Civilian Militias, the Amboinese Hongi and Others

"Based upon a sweeping command of Dutch East India Company (VOC) primary sources, Knaap's manuscript offers a thought-provoking thematic examination and chronological survey of the Dutch Republic's overseas and colonial expansion in Asia and South Africa, mainly through the VOC and its successors, the Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland and Franco-Dutch Java, over a period of more than two centuries, 1596-1811. It elucidates and deals with several conceptual and theoretical issues that are intrinsically important and germane to a polity's definition of and how it chooses to execute the process of expansion overseas in the early modern period. One of this work's major arguments and contributions is its advocacy that the Dutch VOC's expansion in Asia was an imperial project and must be seen as an act of empire, or, at the very minimum, the attempt to construct one via the innovative utilization of a highly organized and dynamic commercial institution with significant political and diplomatic power and naval and military resources"-- Provided by publisher.

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The Deshima diaries 1641-1660 : the dagregisters kept by the chiefs of the Dutch East India Company Factory in Nagasaki, Japan / [edited] by Cynthia Vialle, Isabel Tanaka-van Daalen, Leonard Blussé.

Includes archive source list and index.

Introduction to the Contents of the Deshima Dagregisters of 1641-1660 -- Deshima, the Dutch Factory in Nagasaki : A Brief Introduction -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Maximiliaen Le Maire : 9 June-31 October 1641 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Jan van Elseracq : 1 November 1641-29 October 1642 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Antonisz Overtwater : 29 October 1642-1 August 1643 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Jan van Elseracq : 1 August 1643-24 November 1644 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Antonisz Overtwater : 24 November 1644-29 November 1645 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Reijnier van Tzum : 30 November 1645-27 October 1646 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Wilhem Versteeghen : 28 October 1646-10 October 1647 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Frederik Coyett : 3 November 1647-9 December 1648 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Dircq Snoucq : 9 December 1648-5 November 1649 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Anthonio van Brouckhorst : 5 November 1649-25 October 1650 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Sterthemius : 25 October 1650-1 November 1651 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Adriaen van der Burgh : 1 November 1651-3 November 1652 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Frederik Coyett : 4 November 1652-12 November 1653 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Gabriel Happart : 12 November 1653-31 October 1654 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Leonard Winnincx : 31 October 1654-23 October 1655 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon : 23 October 1655-1 November 1656 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Zacharias Wagenaer : 2 November 1656-26 October 1657 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon : 27 October 1657-23 October 1658 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Zacharias Wagenaer : 23 October 1658-3 November 1659 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon : 4 November 1659-26 October 1660.

"The present volume of The Deshima Diaries consists of the diaries that were kept by the chiefs of the Dutch trading post in Japan during the first two decades of the so-called seclusion period (1640-1868). The employees of the Dutch East India Company - from 1640 the only Europeans in Japan -had to give up their relatively free life in the port of Hirado and were forced to move to the tiny island of Deshima in the Bay of Nagasaki. Continually surrounded by Japanese guards, spies, cooks, concubines and interpreters they were eager to continue their trading activities with their Japanese hosts. Every year, with a few exceptions, the chief of the factory and two or three staff members travelled to Edo to pay obeisance to the Shogun. The diaries in this volume describe in detail how the Dutch merchants grappled with the severe restrictions that were imposed on them, but their writings also shed surprising light on social and economic life in Nagasaki and beyond"--Provided by publisher.

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