#dutch east india company

[ltwilliammowett]

A silver Boatswain's call from the wreck of the Dutch East Indiaman Witte Leeuw, anonymous, c. 1600 - before 1613        

[contremineur]

Silver ingot from the Rooswijk cargo, stamped for the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or Dutch East India Company)

The Rooswijk was a Dutch East Indiaman, bound from Amsterdam and the Texel to Jakarta, which foundered after grounding on the Goodwin Sands at the end of 1739. The site, discovered in 2005, has already yielded some 1,000 artefacts including some 553 silver ingots of Mexican silver purchased and assayed by the VOC, weighing approximately four pounds and destined for use in the coinage of Batavia.

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[kramlabs]

Warren Buffet: “seismic action” event planned on TSMC?

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But is it Dutch as in East India Dutch?

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[feminempreg]

You ever just learn something that explains everything to you. And it was also a They Might Be Giants song?

[darshanan-blog]

Indonesia: Background, history, culture

Indonesia: Java to Ubud Travel I am grateful that I am not a President, Prime Minister, King or Sultan of this country. A country like Indonesia has to be one of the most challenging places to govern.  I took the Java to Ubud tour by Intrepid. Our tour arrangement and our guide were excellent. A friend of mine who visited Bali (as most visitors do) was disappointed. Most visitors come away…

[immaculatasknight]

Heart of darkness

[tonyrossmcmahon]

The Boer War - ten things you didn't know!

The Boer War is a forgotten conflict that pitched the British Empire against a group of white settlers in Africa. Tony McMahon investigates.

The Boer War – a huge and bloody conflict that dominated the news at the turn of the 20th century. The biggest military conflict since the wars against Napoleon Bonaparte. And a grim foreshadowing of the two World Wars that lay ahead. Yet today, it’s large forgotten. Why? Below, I’m going to list ten things you need to know about the Boer War. But first, let’s go through some background so the…

[thetemplarknight]

The Boer War - ten things you didn't know!

The Boer War is a forgotten conflict that pitched the British Empire against a group of white settlers in Africa. Tony McMahon investigates.

The Boer War – a huge and bloody conflict that dominated the news at the turn of the 20th century. The biggest military conflict since the wars against Napoleon Bonaparte. And a grim foreshadowing of the two World Wars that lay ahead. Yet today, it’s large forgotten. Why? Below, I’m going to list ten things you need to know about the Boer War. But first, let’s go through some background so the…

[31n13]

the caribbean = the former west indies

the malay archipelago = the former (netherlands) east indies

[ltwilliammowett]

Delft tile panel with a depiction of an VOC ship- Dutch East Indianman, by unknown, c. 1625

[familyabolisher]

obviously the UK is no better lol but what i learnt from visiting a handful of museums in amsterdam is that the dutch are very very shameless about their colonial history

[fatehbaz]

[T]he Dutch Republic, like its successor the Kingdom of the Netherlands, [...] throughout the early modern period had an advanced maritime [trading, exports] and (financial) service [banking, insurance] sector. Moreover, Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery stretched over two and a half centuries. [...] Carefully estimating the scope of all the activities involved in moving, processing and retailing the goods derived from the forced labour performed by the enslaved in the Atlantic world [...] [shows] more clearly in what ways the gains from slavery percolated through the Dutch economy. [...] [This web] connected them [...] to the enslaved in Suriname and other Dutch colonies, as well as in non-Dutch colonies such as Saint Domingue [Haiti], which was one of the main suppliers of slave-produced goods to the Dutch economy until the enslaved revolted in 1791 and brought an end to the trade. [...] A significant part of the eighteenth-century Dutch elite was actively engaged in financing, insuring, organising and enabling the slave system, and drew much wealth from it. [...] [A] staggering 19% (expressed in value) of the Dutch Republic's trade in 1770 consisted of Atlantic slave-produced goods such as sugar, coffee, or indigo [...].

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One point that deserves considerable emphasis is that [this slave-based Dutch wealth] [...] did not just depend on the increasing output of the Dutch Atlantic slave colonies. By 1770, the Dutch imported over fl.8 million worth of sugar and coffee from French ports. [...] [T]hese [...] routes successfully linked the Dutch trade sector to the massive expansion of slavery in Saint Domingue [the French colony of Haiti], which continued until the early 1790s when the revolution of the enslaved on the French part of that island ended slavery.

Before that time, Dutch sugar mills processed tens of millions of pounds of sugar from the French Caribbean, which were then exported over the Rhine and through the Sound to the German and Eastern European ‘slavery hinterlands’.

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Coffee and indigo flowed through the Dutch Republic via the same trans-imperial routes, while the Dutch also imported tobacco produced by slaves in the British colonies, [and] gold and tobacco produced [by slaves] in Brazil [...]. The value of all the different components of slave-based trade combined amounted to a sum of fl.57.3 million, more than 23% of all the Dutch trade in 1770. [...] However, trade statistics alone cannot answer the question about the weight of this sector within the economy. [...] 1770 was a peak year for the issuing of new plantation loans [...] [T]he main processing industry that was fully based on slave-produced goods was the Holland-based sugar industry [...]. It has been estimated that in 1770 Amsterdam alone housed 110 refineries, out of a total of 150 refineries in the province of Holland. These processed approximately 50 million pounds of raw sugar per year, employing over 4,000 workers. [...] [I]n the four decades from 1738 to 1779, the slave-based contribution to GDP alone grew by fl.20.5 million, thus contributing almost 40% of all growth generated in the economy of Holland in this period. [...]

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These [slave-based Dutch commodity] chains ran from [the plantation itself, through maritime trade, through commodity processing sites like sugar refineries, through export of these goods] [...] and from there to European metropoles and hinterlands that in the eighteenth century became mass consumers of slave-produced goods such as sugar and coffee. These chains tied the Dutch economy to slave-based production in Suriname and other Dutch colonies, but also to the plantation complexes of other European powers, most crucially the French in Saint Domingue [Haiti], as the Dutch became major importers and processers of French coffee and sugar that they then redistributed to Northern and Central Europe. [...]

The explosive growth of production on slave plantations in the Dutch Guianas, combined with the international boom in coffee and sugar consumption, ensured that consistently high proportions (19% in 1770) of commodities entering and exiting Dutch harbors were produced on Atlantic slave plantations. [...] The Dutch economy profited from this Atlantic boom both as direct supplier of slave-produced goods [from slave plantations in the Dutch Guianas, from Dutch processing of sugar from slave plantations in French Haiti] and as intermediary [physically exporting sugar and coffee] between the Atlantic slave complexes of other European powers and the Northern and Central European hinterland.

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Text above by: Pepijn Brandon and Ulbe Bosma. "Slavery and the Dutch economy, 1750-1800". Slavery & Abolition Volume 42, Issue 1. 2021. [Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[orgasming-caterpillar]

carlos sainz ☕

max verstappen ☕

charles leclerc ☕

PH MY GOD YES

So Carlos Sainz is obviously 10/10 my husband he's so BARK BARK BARK WOOF WOOF BARK WOOF I'm very feral about him I will tear flesh and bone

Now max is very babygirl and tbh the more that I learn about him the more ways I discover of how much of a pathetic wet kitten a man can be and my gf loves him so we simp 👍

Charles Leclerc is probably what j think of when I think of French people and god forbid I ever find another FRENCH man attractive but I would let him set up East India Company 2.0 in my

Yeah that's all I'm gonna say here for the sake of public decency and not abusing free speech

[jasonxu0929]

These are the sites of the Dutch East India Company, which was once the most notorious colonial organization worldwide and owned 40 warships and 10,000 metcenaries！

[kc22invesmentsblog]

The Dutch East India Company: Pioneering the IPO and the World's First Stock Market Crash

Written by Delvin In the annals of financial history, one company stands out for its groundbreaking innovations and its pivotal role in shaping modern economies: the Dutch East India Company. Established in 1602, the company not only pioneered the concept of offering equity shares to the public but also played a significant role in the world’s first stock market crash. The Birth of the IPO The…

[historbuff]

Beginning of East India Company in India (1600-1857) :-

Overview :- 1). Portuguese :- Portuguese captain Vas Codi Gama was the first man to arrive in India on 27 May 1498 AD by sea at Calicut. It was only after this that the Portuguese started trading with India. The major settlements of the Portuguese were :- Goa , Daman, Salasar, Bassein, Mumbai, Sat Home and Hooghly.

Conquest of Bengal by the British :- 1). The British had been trading with Bengal for a long time. In 1717 AD, the Mughal Emperor Farrukhshiar gave the East India Company the right to trade tax-free in Bihar, Orissa and Bengal in return for an annual tax of 3000 rupees. But he did not give any reason on his personal business.2). Nawa Siraj ud Daulah could not bear this as it was causing huge loss to the treasury. Nawab Siraj ud Daula became the Nawab of Bengal in 1656 AD. Bengal was very important from the commercial point of view, so the British and the French had started making prisoners in Calcutta fort. But Nawab Siraj ud Daulah could not tolerate this as it could threaten his rule. So he prevented the British and French from building fortifications.

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