A VOC-era map of the Banda Islands in the Maluku archipelago. Monopoly and Murder: The VOC Conquers the East Indies. The Dutch VOC, now led by the infamous Jan Pieterszoon Coen, had the East Indies spice trade almost to themselves. The VOC acted as an agent of the Dutch government in Asia by expanding the Dutch influence by taking possession of land, expanding trade routes and establishing trade outposts. For example, between 1610 and 1669 the VOC took possession of colonies in Batavia, Indonesia, Colombo in Sri Lanka, Malabar in India, Makassar and the Dutch East Indies.

5 days ago The VOC (in Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) was established in 1602 as a chartered company, whose goal was to trade with  The Dutch East India Company, or the VOC was first organized to profit from the East Asian spice trade. Read more about the Dutch VOC routes in our blog. 10 Apr 2019 The Dutch East India Company was a company whose main purpose was or VOC in Dutch, was a company whose main purpose was trade,  Portugal developed and maintained a stranglehold on the spice trade during the 16th century. The creation of the Republic of the United Netherlands and the VOC.

The Dutch Company sent Henry Hudson off westward in 1609 (shown in a steel This Dutch East India Company ("VOC") copper trading coin from 1743 was 

In terms of military-political history, the VOC, along with the Dutch West India Company (WIC/GWIC), was seen as the international arm of the Dutch Republic and the symbolic power of the Dutch Empire. The VOC was historically a military-political-economic complex rather than a pure trading company (or shipping company). In 1604, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) began trading in India. Along the coast from Surat to Calcutta, VOC factories and warehouses covered a far larger area than the company controlled in the East Indies archipelago. It was from the islands that the VOC obtained most of its spices: salt, pepper, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. As a result of the problems caused by inter-company rivalry, the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) was founded in 1602. The charter awarded to the Company by the States-General granted it sole rights, for an initial period of 21 years, to Dutch trade and navigation east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan . The Staten Generaal granted a monopoly on the trade in the East Indies to the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC). The area of trade granted to the company was called the octrooigebied (trade zone).

The story of the Dutch East India Company logo or Vereenigde Oost-Indische and shareholders of VOC wanted even more profit from the spice trade, and 

The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks The Model Of The VOC In Early Seventeenth-Century France (Hugo Grotius And Pierre Bergeron). Here they obtained great success in trade. The companies in the Netherlands merged to establish the United East India Company (company logo mark: V.O.C)   They returned all trading settlements except Ceylon, a key VOC centre. Hundreds of Dutch ships, at enormous expense were then sent out to the east to capitalize  businessman with a family history in the diamond trade in Surat. It makes predecessor and its Dutch rival, the VOC, which was established two years. This Dutch trading company had been a major power in Asian trade since the India Company resulted in the slow demise of the VOC towards the end of the  The trade monopoly that was granted to the VOC by the Dutch government in the East was one of the keys to its success, allowing for the private, mercantilist 

6 Dec 2017 Hans Rooseboom explores the dark history of the Dutch East India carried the privately traded goods of officers employed by the VOC.

21 Oct 2018 The power of cloth [microform] : the textile trade of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), 1600-1780 /. Article (PDF Available) · January 1994  Ambon, Ayutthaya, Banda, Galle, Hirado, Jakarta, Melaka, Nagasaki, Tainan and Ternate. ​. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the VOC operated a large trading  The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks The Model Of The VOC In Early Seventeenth-Century France (Hugo Grotius And Pierre Bergeron). Here they obtained great success in trade. The companies in the Netherlands merged to establish the United East India Company (company logo mark: V.O.C)   They returned all trading settlements except Ceylon, a key VOC centre. Hundreds of Dutch ships, at enormous expense were then sent out to the east to capitalize  businessman with a family history in the diamond trade in Surat. It makes predecessor and its Dutch rival, the VOC, which was established two years.

The story of the Dutch East India Company logo or Vereenigde Oost-Indische and shareholders of VOC wanted even more profit from the spice trade, and 

Here they obtained great success in trade. The companies in the Netherlands merged to establish the United East India Company (company logo mark: V.O.C)   They returned all trading settlements except Ceylon, a key VOC centre. Hundreds of Dutch ships, at enormous expense were then sent out to the east to capitalize  businessman with a family history in the diamond trade in Surat. It makes predecessor and its Dutch rival, the VOC, which was established two years.

5 days ago The VOC (in Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) was established in 1602 as a chartered company, whose goal was to trade with  The Dutch East India Company, or the VOC was first organized to profit from the East Asian spice trade. Read more about the Dutch VOC routes in our blog.