Cover art for East Indies
Published
Rosenberg Publishing, August 2013
ISBN
9781921719592
Format
Hardcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
24cm × 18cm × 2cm

East Indies The 200 Year Struggle Between Portugual, the Dutch East India Co & the English East India Co for Supremacy in the Eastern Seas

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Follows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the port

cities across the East Indies and the Orient uncovering the high finance, piracy, greed, ambition, double dealing, and exploitation.

Driven by the search

for spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains and other oriental goods the

Portuguese trading monopoly was challenged by the Dutch East India Company and

then the English East India Company, the world's first joint stock and

multi-national trading companies. The struggle for supremacy

between the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English ranged across the Eastern

Seas and in the settlements of Goa, Malacca, Ambon, Macao, Canton, Nagasaki,

Solor, Batavia, Macassar, Johor and Singapore for 250 years. The story is told by the history of these port cities,

beginning with Malacca - one of the world's largest trading ports in 16th

century - and ending with the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong.

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