Genesis and Nemesis of the First Dutch Colonial Empire in Asia and South Africa, 1596-1811
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Genesis and Nemesis of the First Dutch Colonial Empire in Asia and South Africa, 1596-1811
Knaap, Gerrit
Brill
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Expansion in History Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Glossary and Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Prelude to Empire
?1 A Young Nation Ready for Ocean-Going Expansion
?2 Proto-Companies on the Way to Asia
?3 Proto-Companies on the Road to Unity
?4 The VOC in a European Context
?5 Conclusion
2 Foundation of Empire
?1 The VOC's Role in Asia According to the Instructions Issued to the Admirals
?2 The First Admirals: War, Success and Stagnation
?3 Governor-General Pieter Both, His Instruction and the Twelve Years' Truce
?4 Coen's First Term of Office: Batavia, the English, Banda, the Iberians
?5 Coen Back Home and His Second Term of Office in the Empire
?6 Conclusion
3 Expansion of Empire
?1 Van Diemen against Portugal: Blockades, Sieges, Conquests
?2 Gunboat Diplomacy, Special Theatres of War, Remote Places
?3 Endgame with Portugal: Ceylon, Malabar and Other Theatres of War
?4 Difficulties with the English and the French
?5 The Cloves Secured: Amboina
?6 The Cloves Secured: Maluku
?7 Formosa Won and Lost
?8 Finale in the Eastern Archipelago: Makassar
?9 Ceylon: Van Goens' War against Kandy and Other Troubles
?10 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Mataram
?11 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Bantam
?12 Conclusion
4 Consolidation of Empire
?1 Consolidation versus Intervention
?2 The First Two Javanese Succession Wars
?3 In the Northern Arabian Sea: Slow Retreat from a Far Periphery
?4 The VOC in Malabar: From Strength to Weakness
?5 The Chinese Massacre in Batavia and the Chinese War in Mataram
?6 The High Government between Factionalism and Reform
?7 The Third Javanese War of Succession and the Division of Mataram
?8 Problems in the Eastern Archipelago: Wajo, Gowa, Timor and Tidore
?9 Problems at Java's Western and Eastern Fringes
?10 Problems in the Malakka Straits and Expansion in Borneo
?11 Dutch Hegemony in Ceylon Secured: The War with Kandy
?12 European Confrontations: The French and the Ostendeners
?13 European Confrontations: The Seven Years' War
?14 Conclusion
5 Demise of Empire
?1 The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
?2 Further Problems in Malabar, the Malakka Straits, Borneo and Tidore
?3 New Initiatives for a Better Defence
?4 Revolution in Europe
?5 The First British Assault
?6 The Peace of Amiens and the Resumption of Hostilities
?7 Marshall Daendels in Java
?8 The Second British Assault, the End of Dutch Empire
?9 Conclusion
6 The Empire's Naval and Army Personnel
?1 Recruitment of Personnel in the Netherlands and Europe
?2 From the Netherlands to the East and Back
?3 Conditions of the Military Men and the Sailors after Arrival in the East
?4 Temporary Armed Forces: Civilian Militias, the Amboinese Hongi and Others
?5 Armed Personnel Recruited in the East
?6 Primary Labour Conditions of Military Men and Sailors
?7 Statistics of the Armed Personnel of the Empire
?8 Quality and Costs of Armed Forces' Personnel
?9 Conclusion
7 The Empire's Ships, Fortifications and Weapons
?1 Ships Built in the Netherlands
?2 Shipbuilding and Repairs in the East
?3 Dutch Naval Power in the East
?4 Fortifications: Necessity for the Empire
?5 Fortifications: Construction, Maintenance, Classification
?6 Heavy Fire-Arms: Artillery at Sea and Ashore
?7 Portable Weaponry: Proximity and Short Distance Weapons
?8 Projectiles, Gunpowder and Other Military Requirements
?9 Costs of Ships, Fortifications and Weaponry
?10 Conclusion
8 The Empire's Voyages, Garrisons and Military Practices
?1 Outward- and Homeward-Bound Voyages
?2 In the Capital of Empire: Batavia
?3 In Other Garrison Towns
?4 In the Far Periphery
?5 Expeditions at Sea and on the Coast
?6 Expeditions on Land
?7 Landscapes of Foes and Friends of the Empire
?8 Genocidal Behaviour
?9 Imperial Decision Makers: A Proto-Civil Service
?10 Conclusion
9 The First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East: Empire among Empires
?1 European Colonial Powers Surrounding the Indian Ocean
?2 Characteristics of the First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East
?3 The Dutch Colonial Empire and the Great Asian Empires
?4 The Military Revolutions of the Early Modern Era
?5 Conclusion
Epilogue
Statistics
?Table 1: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, five year intervals
?Table 2: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to rank
?Table 3: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to province
?Table 4: The fleet of the VOC in its empire
?Table 5: Fortifications of the VOC per category, circa 1790, according to province
?Table 6: Weapons of the VOC according to category, circa 1790
Sources and Literature
?Nationaal Archief, Abbreviated NA, The Hague
?Printed Sources, Monographs and Articles
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Glossary and Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Prelude to Empire
?1 A Young Nation Ready for Ocean-Going Expansion
?2 Proto-Companies on the Way to Asia
?3 Proto-Companies on the Road to Unity
?4 The VOC in a European Context
?5 Conclusion
2 Foundation of Empire
?1 The VOC's Role in Asia According to the Instructions Issued to the Admirals
?2 The First Admirals: War, Success and Stagnation
?3 Governor-General Pieter Both, His Instruction and the Twelve Years' Truce
?4 Coen's First Term of Office: Batavia, the English, Banda, the Iberians
?5 Coen Back Home and His Second Term of Office in the Empire
?6 Conclusion
3 Expansion of Empire
?1 Van Diemen against Portugal: Blockades, Sieges, Conquests
?2 Gunboat Diplomacy, Special Theatres of War, Remote Places
?3 Endgame with Portugal: Ceylon, Malabar and Other Theatres of War
?4 Difficulties with the English and the French
?5 The Cloves Secured: Amboina
?6 The Cloves Secured: Maluku
?7 Formosa Won and Lost
?8 Finale in the Eastern Archipelago: Makassar
?9 Ceylon: Van Goens' War against Kandy and Other Troubles
?10 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Mataram
?11 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Bantam
?12 Conclusion
4 Consolidation of Empire
?1 Consolidation versus Intervention
?2 The First Two Javanese Succession Wars
?3 In the Northern Arabian Sea: Slow Retreat from a Far Periphery
?4 The VOC in Malabar: From Strength to Weakness
?5 The Chinese Massacre in Batavia and the Chinese War in Mataram
?6 The High Government between Factionalism and Reform
?7 The Third Javanese War of Succession and the Division of Mataram
?8 Problems in the Eastern Archipelago: Wajo, Gowa, Timor and Tidore
?9 Problems at Java's Western and Eastern Fringes
?10 Problems in the Malakka Straits and Expansion in Borneo
?11 Dutch Hegemony in Ceylon Secured: The War with Kandy
?12 European Confrontations: The French and the Ostendeners
?13 European Confrontations: The Seven Years' War
?14 Conclusion
5 Demise of Empire
?1 The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
?2 Further Problems in Malabar, the Malakka Straits, Borneo and Tidore
?3 New Initiatives for a Better Defence
?4 Revolution in Europe
?5 The First British Assault
?6 The Peace of Amiens and the Resumption of Hostilities
?7 Marshall Daendels in Java
?8 The Second British Assault, the End of Dutch Empire
?9 Conclusion
6 The Empire's Naval and Army Personnel
?1 Recruitment of Personnel in the Netherlands and Europe
?2 From the Netherlands to the East and Back
?3 Conditions of the Military Men and the Sailors after Arrival in the East
?4 Temporary Armed Forces: Civilian Militias, the Amboinese Hongi and Others
?5 Armed Personnel Recruited in the East
?6 Primary Labour Conditions of Military Men and Sailors
?7 Statistics of the Armed Personnel of the Empire
?8 Quality and Costs of Armed Forces' Personnel
?9 Conclusion
7 The Empire's Ships, Fortifications and Weapons
?1 Ships Built in the Netherlands
?2 Shipbuilding and Repairs in the East
?3 Dutch Naval Power in the East
?4 Fortifications: Necessity for the Empire
?5 Fortifications: Construction, Maintenance, Classification
?6 Heavy Fire-Arms: Artillery at Sea and Ashore
?7 Portable Weaponry: Proximity and Short Distance Weapons
?8 Projectiles, Gunpowder and Other Military Requirements
?9 Costs of Ships, Fortifications and Weaponry
?10 Conclusion
8 The Empire's Voyages, Garrisons and Military Practices
?1 Outward- and Homeward-Bound Voyages
?2 In the Capital of Empire: Batavia
?3 In Other Garrison Towns
?4 In the Far Periphery
?5 Expeditions at Sea and on the Coast
?6 Expeditions on Land
?7 Landscapes of Foes and Friends of the Empire
?8 Genocidal Behaviour
?9 Imperial Decision Makers: A Proto-Civil Service
?10 Conclusion
9 The First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East: Empire among Empires
?1 European Colonial Powers Surrounding the Indian Ocean
?2 Characteristics of the First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East
?3 The Dutch Colonial Empire and the Great Asian Empires
?4 The Military Revolutions of the Early Modern Era
?5 Conclusion
Epilogue
Statistics
?Table 1: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, five year intervals
?Table 2: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to rank
?Table 3: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to province
?Table 4: The fleet of the VOC in its empire
?Table 5: Fortifications of the VOC per category, circa 1790, according to province
?Table 6: Weapons of the VOC according to category, circa 1790
Sources and Literature
?Nationaal Archief, Abbreviated NA, The Hague
?Printed Sources, Monographs and Articles
Index
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Colonial History; Dutch Republic; Imperialism; India; Indonesia; Military History; Military Revolutions; Naval History; South Africa
Expansion in History Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Glossary and Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Prelude to Empire
?1 A Young Nation Ready for Ocean-Going Expansion
?2 Proto-Companies on the Way to Asia
?3 Proto-Companies on the Road to Unity
?4 The VOC in a European Context
?5 Conclusion
2 Foundation of Empire
?1 The VOC's Role in Asia According to the Instructions Issued to the Admirals
?2 The First Admirals: War, Success and Stagnation
?3 Governor-General Pieter Both, His Instruction and the Twelve Years' Truce
?4 Coen's First Term of Office: Batavia, the English, Banda, the Iberians
?5 Coen Back Home and His Second Term of Office in the Empire
?6 Conclusion
3 Expansion of Empire
?1 Van Diemen against Portugal: Blockades, Sieges, Conquests
?2 Gunboat Diplomacy, Special Theatres of War, Remote Places
?3 Endgame with Portugal: Ceylon, Malabar and Other Theatres of War
?4 Difficulties with the English and the French
?5 The Cloves Secured: Amboina
?6 The Cloves Secured: Maluku
?7 Formosa Won and Lost
?8 Finale in the Eastern Archipelago: Makassar
?9 Ceylon: Van Goens' War against Kandy and Other Troubles
?10 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Mataram
?11 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Bantam
?12 Conclusion
4 Consolidation of Empire
?1 Consolidation versus Intervention
?2 The First Two Javanese Succession Wars
?3 In the Northern Arabian Sea: Slow Retreat from a Far Periphery
?4 The VOC in Malabar: From Strength to Weakness
?5 The Chinese Massacre in Batavia and the Chinese War in Mataram
?6 The High Government between Factionalism and Reform
?7 The Third Javanese War of Succession and the Division of Mataram
?8 Problems in the Eastern Archipelago: Wajo, Gowa, Timor and Tidore
?9 Problems at Java's Western and Eastern Fringes
?10 Problems in the Malakka Straits and Expansion in Borneo
?11 Dutch Hegemony in Ceylon Secured: The War with Kandy
?12 European Confrontations: The French and the Ostendeners
?13 European Confrontations: The Seven Years' War
?14 Conclusion
5 Demise of Empire
?1 The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
?2 Further Problems in Malabar, the Malakka Straits, Borneo and Tidore
?3 New Initiatives for a Better Defence
?4 Revolution in Europe
?5 The First British Assault
?6 The Peace of Amiens and the Resumption of Hostilities
?7 Marshall Daendels in Java
?8 The Second British Assault, the End of Dutch Empire
?9 Conclusion
6 The Empire's Naval and Army Personnel
?1 Recruitment of Personnel in the Netherlands and Europe
?2 From the Netherlands to the East and Back
?3 Conditions of the Military Men and the Sailors after Arrival in the East
?4 Temporary Armed Forces: Civilian Militias, the Amboinese Hongi and Others
?5 Armed Personnel Recruited in the East
?6 Primary Labour Conditions of Military Men and Sailors
?7 Statistics of the Armed Personnel of the Empire
?8 Quality and Costs of Armed Forces' Personnel
?9 Conclusion
7 The Empire's Ships, Fortifications and Weapons
?1 Ships Built in the Netherlands
?2 Shipbuilding and Repairs in the East
?3 Dutch Naval Power in the East
?4 Fortifications: Necessity for the Empire
?5 Fortifications: Construction, Maintenance, Classification
?6 Heavy Fire-Arms: Artillery at Sea and Ashore
?7 Portable Weaponry: Proximity and Short Distance Weapons
?8 Projectiles, Gunpowder and Other Military Requirements
?9 Costs of Ships, Fortifications and Weaponry
?10 Conclusion
8 The Empire's Voyages, Garrisons and Military Practices
?1 Outward- and Homeward-Bound Voyages
?2 In the Capital of Empire: Batavia
?3 In Other Garrison Towns
?4 In the Far Periphery
?5 Expeditions at Sea and on the Coast
?6 Expeditions on Land
?7 Landscapes of Foes and Friends of the Empire
?8 Genocidal Behaviour
?9 Imperial Decision Makers: A Proto-Civil Service
?10 Conclusion
9 The First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East: Empire among Empires
?1 European Colonial Powers Surrounding the Indian Ocean
?2 Characteristics of the First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East
?3 The Dutch Colonial Empire and the Great Asian Empires
?4 The Military Revolutions of the Early Modern Era
?5 Conclusion
Epilogue
Statistics
?Table 1: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, five year intervals
?Table 2: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to rank
?Table 3: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to province
?Table 4: The fleet of the VOC in its empire
?Table 5: Fortifications of the VOC per category, circa 1790, according to province
?Table 6: Weapons of the VOC according to category, circa 1790
Sources and Literature
?Nationaal Archief, Abbreviated NA, The Hague
?Printed Sources, Monographs and Articles
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Glossary and Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Prelude to Empire
?1 A Young Nation Ready for Ocean-Going Expansion
?2 Proto-Companies on the Way to Asia
?3 Proto-Companies on the Road to Unity
?4 The VOC in a European Context
?5 Conclusion
2 Foundation of Empire
?1 The VOC's Role in Asia According to the Instructions Issued to the Admirals
?2 The First Admirals: War, Success and Stagnation
?3 Governor-General Pieter Both, His Instruction and the Twelve Years' Truce
?4 Coen's First Term of Office: Batavia, the English, Banda, the Iberians
?5 Coen Back Home and His Second Term of Office in the Empire
?6 Conclusion
3 Expansion of Empire
?1 Van Diemen against Portugal: Blockades, Sieges, Conquests
?2 Gunboat Diplomacy, Special Theatres of War, Remote Places
?3 Endgame with Portugal: Ceylon, Malabar and Other Theatres of War
?4 Difficulties with the English and the French
?5 The Cloves Secured: Amboina
?6 The Cloves Secured: Maluku
?7 Formosa Won and Lost
?8 Finale in the Eastern Archipelago: Makassar
?9 Ceylon: Van Goens' War against Kandy and Other Troubles
?10 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Mataram
?11 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Bantam
?12 Conclusion
4 Consolidation of Empire
?1 Consolidation versus Intervention
?2 The First Two Javanese Succession Wars
?3 In the Northern Arabian Sea: Slow Retreat from a Far Periphery
?4 The VOC in Malabar: From Strength to Weakness
?5 The Chinese Massacre in Batavia and the Chinese War in Mataram
?6 The High Government between Factionalism and Reform
?7 The Third Javanese War of Succession and the Division of Mataram
?8 Problems in the Eastern Archipelago: Wajo, Gowa, Timor and Tidore
?9 Problems at Java's Western and Eastern Fringes
?10 Problems in the Malakka Straits and Expansion in Borneo
?11 Dutch Hegemony in Ceylon Secured: The War with Kandy
?12 European Confrontations: The French and the Ostendeners
?13 European Confrontations: The Seven Years' War
?14 Conclusion
5 Demise of Empire
?1 The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
?2 Further Problems in Malabar, the Malakka Straits, Borneo and Tidore
?3 New Initiatives for a Better Defence
?4 Revolution in Europe
?5 The First British Assault
?6 The Peace of Amiens and the Resumption of Hostilities
?7 Marshall Daendels in Java
?8 The Second British Assault, the End of Dutch Empire
?9 Conclusion
6 The Empire's Naval and Army Personnel
?1 Recruitment of Personnel in the Netherlands and Europe
?2 From the Netherlands to the East and Back
?3 Conditions of the Military Men and the Sailors after Arrival in the East
?4 Temporary Armed Forces: Civilian Militias, the Amboinese Hongi and Others
?5 Armed Personnel Recruited in the East
?6 Primary Labour Conditions of Military Men and Sailors
?7 Statistics of the Armed Personnel of the Empire
?8 Quality and Costs of Armed Forces' Personnel
?9 Conclusion
7 The Empire's Ships, Fortifications and Weapons
?1 Ships Built in the Netherlands
?2 Shipbuilding and Repairs in the East
?3 Dutch Naval Power in the East
?4 Fortifications: Necessity for the Empire
?5 Fortifications: Construction, Maintenance, Classification
?6 Heavy Fire-Arms: Artillery at Sea and Ashore
?7 Portable Weaponry: Proximity and Short Distance Weapons
?8 Projectiles, Gunpowder and Other Military Requirements
?9 Costs of Ships, Fortifications and Weaponry
?10 Conclusion
8 The Empire's Voyages, Garrisons and Military Practices
?1 Outward- and Homeward-Bound Voyages
?2 In the Capital of Empire: Batavia
?3 In Other Garrison Towns
?4 In the Far Periphery
?5 Expeditions at Sea and on the Coast
?6 Expeditions on Land
?7 Landscapes of Foes and Friends of the Empire
?8 Genocidal Behaviour
?9 Imperial Decision Makers: A Proto-Civil Service
?10 Conclusion
9 The First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East: Empire among Empires
?1 European Colonial Powers Surrounding the Indian Ocean
?2 Characteristics of the First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East
?3 The Dutch Colonial Empire and the Great Asian Empires
?4 The Military Revolutions of the Early Modern Era
?5 Conclusion
Epilogue
Statistics
?Table 1: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, five year intervals
?Table 2: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to rank
?Table 3: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to province
?Table 4: The fleet of the VOC in its empire
?Table 5: Fortifications of the VOC per category, circa 1790, according to province
?Table 6: Weapons of the VOC according to category, circa 1790
Sources and Literature
?Nationaal Archief, Abbreviated NA, The Hague
?Printed Sources, Monographs and Articles
Index
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