In Our Time: S18/22 The Dutch East India Company (March 3 2016)

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 between Asia and Europe for two hundred years, with the British East India Company a distant second. At its peak, the VOC had a virtual monopoly on nutmeg, mace, cloves and cinnamon, displacing the Portuguese and excluding the British, and were the only European traders allowed access to Japan.

With Anne Goldgar, Reader in Early Modern European History at King's College London; Chris Nierstrasz, Lecturer in Global History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, formerly at the University of Warwick; and Helen Paul, Lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton. Producer: Simon Tillotson.

READING LIST:

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Huw Bowen, Robert J. Blyth and John McAleer, Monsoon Traders: The Maritime World of the East India Company (Scala Publishers, 2011)

C. R. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800 (Hutchinson, 1965)

K. N. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 (first published 1978; Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Adam Clulow, The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia University Press, 2014)

Femme S. Gaastra, The Dutch East India Company (Walburg Pers, 2003)

Oscar Gelderblom (ed.), The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic (Routledge, 2009)

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Jonathan Israel, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806 (Clarendon Press, 1995)

Els M. Jacobs, In Pursuit of Pepper and Tea: The Story of the Dutch East India Company (Walburg Pers, 1991)

Chris Nierstrasz, Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles. The English and Dutch East India Companies (1700-1800) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

Robert Parthesius, Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia 1595-1660 (Amsterdam University Press, 2010)

Maarten Prak, The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

J. L. Price, The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998)

Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (HarperCollins, 1987)

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Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815 (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

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