Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding

Author : Wendy van Duivenvoorde
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623492319
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding written by Wendy van Duivenvoorde and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia. Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated remains of an early seventeenth-century Indiaman to have been raised and conserved in a way that permits detailed examination, using data retrieved from the archaeological remains, interpreted in the light of company archives, ship journals, and Dutch texts on shipbuilding of this period. Over two hundred tables, charts, drawings, and photographs are included.

Author : Wendy van Duivenvoorde
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623491797
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding written by Wendy van Duivenvoorde and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia. Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated remains of an early seventeenth-century Indiaman to have been raised and conserved in a way that permits detailed examination, using data retrieved from the archaeological remains, interpreted in the light of company archives, ship journals, and Dutch texts on shipbuilding of this period. Over two hundred tables, charts, drawings, and photographs are included.

Author : Robert Parthesius
Publisher : Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
ISBN 13 : 9789053565179
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters written by Robert Parthesius and published by Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age. This book was released on 2010 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the 16th century saw Dutch expansion in Asia, as The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) was fast becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world had ever seen. This landmark study looks at perhaps the most important tool in the Company' trading - its ships. In order to reconstruct the complete shipping activities of the VOC, the author created a unique database of the ships' movements, including frigates and other, hitherto ingored, smaller vessels. Parthesius's research into the routes and the types of ships in the service of the VOC proves that it was precisely the wide range of types and sizes of vessels that gave the Company the ability to sail - and continue its profitable trade - the year round. Furthermore, it appears that the VOC commanded at least twice the number of ships than earlier historians have ascertained. Combining the best of maritime and social history, this book will change our understanding of the commercial dynamics of the most successful economic organization of the period.

Author : Ron Guleij
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789462581784
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Het Grote VOC Boek written by Ron Guleij and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erik Odegard
Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789087283469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Company Fortress written by Erik Odegard and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early Modern European expansion? The Company Fortress takes on this question by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It uncovers the stories of the forts and their designers, arguing that many of these engineers were in fact amateurs and their creations contained serious flaws. Subsequent engineers were hampered by their disagreement over fortification design: there proved not to be a single 'European school' of fortification design. The study questions the importance of fortification design for European expansion, shows the relationship between siege and naval warfare, and highlights changing perceptions by the VOC of the capabilities of new polities in India in the late eighteenth century.

Author : Dan Sleigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jan Compagnie written by Dan Sleigh and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Webster
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843833034
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Richest East India Merchant written by Anthony Webster and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography and business history of wealthy British merchant in India reveals much about the nineteenth-century Empire.

Author : Ab Hoving
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN 13 : 9789065500878
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ships of Abel Tasman written by Ab Hoving and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : British Library. Oriental and India Office Collections
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs, 1600-1834 written by British Library. Oriental and India Office Collections and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue provides a complete overview of the English East India Company's shipping from its formation in 1600 until it ceased to trade after the Charter Act of 1833. Arranged by ship name, it details over 4500 voyages to Asia performed by 1474 separate ships and gives the references for nearly 10,000 journals, logs and associated account books whihc survive in the company's archives at the British Library.

Author : Louisa Balk
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047421795
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Local Institutions in Batavia (Jakarta) written by Louisa Balk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VOC (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company) was the largest of the early modern European trading companies operating in Asia. Its operations produced not only warehouses packed with spices, coffee, tea, textiles, porcelain and silk, but also shiploads of documents. Data on political, economic, cultural, religious, and social conditions spread over an enormous area circulated between the VOC establishments, the administrative centre of the trade in Batavia, now the city of Jakarta, and the Board of Directors in the Netherlands. The co-operation between the National Archives of Indonesia and the Netherlands resulted in this extensive catalogue of fifteen archives of VOC institutions in Jakarta. The VOC records are included in UNESCO ́s Memory of the World Register.