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File Size: 3980 KB

Print Length: 56 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1540357503

Publisher: Charles River Editors (November 16, 2016)

Publication Date: November 16, 2016

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Language: English

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The newly established Dutch Republic, still in the middle of its war of independence against Habsburg-Spain, played a great role as the transition of power-shift from the old Habsburg Empire (Spain) to the rising Bourbon Dynasty (France). Without the anti-Habsburg alliance with England and especially with the Dutch Republic, France wouldn’t be able to defeat Spanish maritime empire and become champion of Europe building up a massive colonial empire with huge overseas territories in North America and India in the 17th to 18th century.Come to think about it, what would have happened if the Dutch had been happy under the Habsburg rules and stayed within the empire united. The division in the old empire was the chance Henry Bourbon (King Henry IV) had found to challenge the empire, so he focused on the unity within his kingdom to have the upper hand in that enterprise.An example of the process>Capetown - The gate between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: The old Portuguese dominion in the Cape of Good Hope under the Habsburg-Spanish monarchy was taken by the Dutch, officially recognized as the rebels against the Habsburg-Spain until 1648. And soon the Bourbon French monarchy overran the mainland Dutch Republic, so imagine how it was possible for the French to build that massive possessions in the Indian Ocean so fast after the Franco-Dutch War: Who'd have the loudest voice at the gate?The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and its form’idable naval forces contributed the most to this transition.Just like the Columbus case, we might wanna criticize the cruelty and greed VOC exhibited throughout its campaigns, but when we approach from the common people’s point of view, and if we were one of the crew members of the VOC galleons, we wouldn’t be able to criticize these people who stayed in their place doing their job despite all the scary-harsh environment they had to overcome or sacrifice themselves in.(Kindle Location 163)After 3 years of rough seas and the mini-battles that ensued abroad, only 89 Dutch crewmen made their way back to Holland. On top of their obvious lack of planning and shoddy organizational skills, the ships returned with only a single cargo of pepper...They knew there wasn't any guarantee of success; moreover they knew it was dangerous, yet they chose to challenge at the risk of their own lives: What was that if not courage and spirit? I wouldn’t call it the Age of Discovery, since it is Euro-centered only for a few celebrated figures whose names have been well-known to all of us, but I’d definitely call the era with respect the Age of Great Voyage and Courage for the common sailors and the people who ever contributed to the great Human endeavor.(Kindle Location 195)...If the Dutch did not act now, the swelling unified powers of Portugal and Spain would push them out of the industry altogether, rendering all their accomplishments thus far completely useless...(Kindle Locations 341-350)...The loss at the standoff against the Spanish in the Philippines, Maluku Islands, Flanders, and other conflicts the Dutch had engaged in had taken a toll on the weakening army population as well. Moreover, competition was getting fiercer by the minute, and rumors had been circulating about France's King Henry IV looking to start an East Indian Company of his own with the help of Flemish and Dutch traitors.(Kindle Location 357)Later that year, the VOC revisited the Maluku Islands and signed another treaty there. By the time the short-lived truce disintegrated in April 1609, the VOC had established as many Asian outposts as their competition. Though most of the Portuguese regions had been conquered, the VOC had yet to strike down the Iberian bases in Macau, Malacca, Manila, Ternate, and Goa.It was the first global war of powershift and hegemony: The rising nations such as France, England and the Netherlands (not fully independent from Spain until the Peace of Westphalia) put up a fight against the intolerant Habsburg domination over Europe and the global water passages.It was a tough fight for the Dutch both physically and mentally. It was always tough for the people who were labeled as traitors by their old authority while the ruling authority was the world’s biggest economy armed with the most powerful military of the time. Habsburg Empire, which the Kingdom of Portugal was also a part of, was indeed a tough giant to crack.However, they challenged this mega giant of the time, and VOC was the core of that endeavor.What I like the most about this book is the clues that explain the relationship between the empires of Habsburg-Spain (Habsburg-España) and Ming-China (Zhu-Ming), the two old and declining giants of the West and the East at the time.And the book witnesses that, not just the rising Japanese power in the region, which challenged the old regional order led by Ming Empire, but the Dutch fleets, too, had a direct contact with the Chinese forces in attempt to gain control over the oceanic trade in the Western Pacific.(Kindle Locations 557-566)Things did not go over as smoothly with the Chinese. In 1623, a VOC official traveled to China in the hopes of convincing the Ming Dynasty to grant the Dutch exclusive use of the Penghu Islands. When the Chinese refused to comply with VOC terms, a mini-war between the Chinese and the Dutch ensued, one that lasted until 1662. In this instance, the VOC agreed that brute force was the only answer. The lush greenery and peaceful quiet of the Penghu Islands were disrupted in the early morning of late 1623 as VOC officials barged into the islands, seizing the territory and erecting a makeshift fort. The Chinese military instantly appeared on the scene and retaliated, eventually emerging victorious a year later. In 1633, the VOC tried their luck a second time, but the company was once again defeated in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay.(Kindle Location 575)...Members of the census also included Japanese Catholics and Black-Portuguese, with relatives and ancestors from Goa, Ceylon, and Africa.(Kindle Location 278)The wildly successful auction of the Santa Catarina booty boggled the minds of merchants from other European nations. Before this, the Portuguese, who had a head-start in the industry, had managed to keep their trade relations with Asian ports under wraps. Now that the secret was out, the potential of the vast and unimaginable riches available in Asia – in particular, China – stunned merchants across Europe...(Kindle Location 548)...Asian consumers only had an appetite for European silver and gold, but these precious metals, which were aplenty in Spain and Portugal, were rare on Dutch and British soil...The Habsburg Empire in the late-16th century clearly had a special relationship with Ming Empire. With the challenge from the rising maritime power Dutch Republic, which was trying hard at the same time to win its official independence from the House of Habsburg, a direct conflict in a great maritime warfare over the global ocean was inevitable, especially over the passages between the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.Portugal, under the monarchy of Habsburg-Spain, was obviously backed by the Spaniards, whereas the Dutch Republic was getting allied supports from England and France. While the English were having domestic trouble with endless civil wars and stuff constantly suffering humiliating defeats in European ports, France was successfully pushing old-tiger Spain into a corner until she took the final victory by the mid-17th century.With the Peace of Westphalia signed by all parties involved in that long, dreadful war for decades, the Dutch Republic finally gained its official independence from Spain and was internationally recognized as a self-governed nation. And by the time France forced Spain to sign another extension of Peace of Westphalia, the Peace of the Pyrenees, in the early 1660s, the Dutch Republic also finalized its war with Portugal with victory.(Kindle Location 325)Under explicit VOC instructions, the admiral was to reinforce attacks against Portuguese strongholds and raid their ships. They were to set their flags down at Goa, claim the western state of India, and lace knots in all the loose ends of Dutch-Indian trade agreements. They were also expected to do the same in the Malaysian state of Malacca and expel the Spanish traders there by any means necessary.But the glorious heyday for the Republic didn’t last long. As Louis XIV invaded and occupied the mainland Netherlands, the French Bourbon mon’arch-y took over the global water passages with huge domains in India and North America, which would last for about a century until the United Kingdom (after a long civil wars and social turmoil) of Great Britain started challenging her power in the mid-18th century.The French domination over the global waters was facilitated with the result of War of Spanish Succession. Many historians interpret the result as the French defeat, but the new dynasty in Madrid with a Bourbon king on the throne, Spain started playing a role of little brother to the French Bourbon monarchy despite all the other European nations’ efforts to prevent the French-Spanish Bourbon Empire from emerging. Spain wasn't annexed by France officially, but the country became the naval power provider for the French, and the relationship lasted until the end of Napoleonic War in the early-19th century.The book’s exhibiting some balanced perspective over the events in the 17th-century globe.(Kindle Location 482)Archived records show that 4 Englishmen and 2 Japanese soldiers evaded further punishment and were pardoned for reasons unknown. The rest of the condemned, a group that consisted of 10 Englishmen, 9 Japanese mercenaries, and 1 Portuguese soldier, were sentenced to death. On the 9th of March, the group was beheaded. In an effort to prevent future conspiracies, Towerson's severed head was pierced upon a pole and flaunted around in a morbid parade around Ambon Island.Shocking? It wasn’t only happening in the other cultures outside European affairs, but in the 17th-century European affairs, precisely for the same purpose: warning, which was the norm up until the French Revolution in the late-18th century. Although it wasn't norm anymore French anarchist Auguste Vaillant was sentenced to death and guillotined in 1894. The last beheading by the government authority happened in West Germany in 1949; it was 1966 in East Germany.Despite its many good qualities that deserve praise and admiration, the book has failed to win five or four stars: Besides its format issues, it never mentions what was going on in the mainland Netherlands in the second-half of the 17th century when VOC began to decline. After all, what was going on in Europe must have been the biggest impact on the rise and fall of VOC, ain't it? Its rise was well-explained, but its decline wasn’t.The thing is the country was invaded and occupied, and like this book clearly mentions, in that very time frame the VOC started declining.The book talks once about the humiliating (for the Dutch) 4th Anglo-Dutch War in the late-18th century, but it is even worse since it gives the readers a false impression as though that war in the late-18th century was the direct cause for the VOC downfall. By the late-18th century the Netherlands had not even been a "power" for a century constantly bullied by then-European hegemon Bourbon monarchy of France, which was also facing a challenge from the rising parliamentary Great Britain all across the globe.

This was the original imperialistic mercantile company that paved the way for the others during the Age of Discovery and into the 19th century. The VoC was practically its own nation around the Indian subcontinent, given semi-autonomous power to do things like trade and fight battles. It's a remarkable story that helps explain how colonial empires became so powerful.

I have always wondered about the Dutch East India Company and this book told it well. I had no idea that they were a nation unto themselves with war ships, seizing other ships, making war on others. Pretty ruthless tactics for spices....but....that was business back then.

An interesting, and exciting, history to read. It gave me a huge insight as to what life was like in the 16th and 17th centuries, and how ruthless those companies were.

To short, provided minimal information. What was provided was well written, just insufficient.

Small but handy book, with lots of concise informations and useful pictures. Very Good, although I thought it was bigger.

Surprisingly interesting!

These type of books seem to be written by short book mills looking to make a quick buck. This book read more like a high school term paper than any serious analysis of the subject matter. Thank good I got it for free, otherwise I would be very disappointed. Please look at the page count before you purchase these books. They are not really books a short stories. I read the entire book in less than an hour.

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