Dutch Batavia and the Ideology of Early Modern Empire -- A Conversation with Deborah Hamer
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The Dutch Revolt
The teiti compaid started in 15 o two and was a state private profit making partnership. In the end of the 15 90 dutch merchants had started taking ships to asia, but they were getting into competition with one another. But then it's also kind of a military operation as well. The dutch are at war with i iberia powers, we knot particularly spain. So its has e stem that, you know, let's say one ship can't relate yo much of an encounter a spanish fleet in the east indies somewhere. But a company where ships travel together can have kind of aMilitary, the strom of military presente to disrupt what spain
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