2016年3月4日 星期五

Dutch East India Company

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    Dutch East India Company
    The United East Indian Company, referred to by the British as the Dutch East India Company, was originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on Dutch spice trade. Wikipedia
    Founder: Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
    Founded: March 20, 1602
    Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Ceased operations: December 31, 1799
    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC, known in English as the Dutch East India Company. The VOC dominated the spice trade between Asia and Europe for two hundred years,
    BBC Radio 4
    More powerful than most sovereign nations at the time.

    In Our Time - The Dutch East India Company
    The largest global corporation of the seventeenth century.
    BBC.IN

    with the British East India Company a distant second. At its peak, the VOC had a virtual monopoly on nutmeg, mace, cloves and cinnamon, displacing the Portuguese and excluding the British, and were the only European traders allowed access to Japan.

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