Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs, 1600-1834


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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.







The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge


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Ehrlich reveals how the East India Company used its commitment to knowledge to justify its commercial and political power.




Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya


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This book deals with the early modern Dutch-Thai interactions as told by the merchants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who concurrently tried to find a balance between their 'partnership' with and 'sense of differences' from the Thai elite.