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Article: Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca: 1641-1795.
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
- Author:
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This book represents a revised edition of the author's Ph.D. thesis accepted by the Australian National University in 1991. Chapters 2 and 5 have been previously published as articles.
The title links the present work with extant accounts of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) by other authors, such as notably Boxer and Raychauduri. The period under review spans from the Dutch seizure of Malacca from the Portuguese in 1641 until the VOC had emerged as the truly dominant power in the Straits of Malacca by 1795.
As the author makes clear to her readers from the onset, she accentuates not so much the history of the once commercially vibrant port city, as Malacca's ...