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Dutch merchants and mariners in Asia, 1602-1795
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These articles focus on the Far East, which has always been the author's interest, but other regions receive attention too. For nearly two centuries the VOC was the greatest mercantile corporation in the world; a massive organization which confessedly had "trade as its compass a…
For nearly two centuries the VOC (the Dutch acronym for the United East India Company of the Netherlands, 1602-1795) was the greatest mercantile corporation in the world; a massive organization which confessedly had "trade as its compass and profit as its motive.-preface.
This thesis aims to examine George Frideric Handel’s La Lucrezia through various lenses of understanding, first by tracing the legend of Lucretia from the first surviving Roman account until Handel’s retelling of the story in the 18th century. The accounts of Livy, Ovid, and oth…
This study explores the possibilities for violoncellists to embellish the Italian baroque aria bass. The invention of the wire-wound bottom string on the violoncello in Italy around the 1660s forged two diverging paths on the use of this novel instrument in aria accompaniment: 1…
Essays previously appeared in Indian economic and social history review. Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book traces connections in pre-modern Asia by looking at different worlds across geography, history and society. It examines how regions were connected by people, families, trade, and politics as well as how they were maintained and remembered. The volume analyses these int…
This book traces connections in pre-modern Asia by looking at different worlds across geography, history and society. It examines how regions were connected by people, families, trade, and politics as well as how they were maintained and remembered. The volume analyses these int…
This book offers a global and comparative history of textile workers over the course of 350 years. This period covers the major changes in wool and cotton production (from artisan, via putting-out to factory production), and the global picture from pre-industrial times through t…
