c. 1650 AD–c. 1800 AD
VOC: Dutch armed monopoly and Asian commercial regime
Trade & global routes · Compañías privilegiadas · Monopolios · Poder armado · Coerción colonial
During the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) maintained a Dutch monopoly on trade and navigation in its chartered zone, backed by powers to make treaties, maintain forces, and wage war. Those powers intertwined commerce, diplomacy, and violence, but did not make the VOC an independent sovereign state or give it complete control over Asian economies. Asian authorities and merchants negotiated, resisted, and conditioned the regime in different places and moments.
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