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Feeling or Figures: Two New Books on the Financial History of the Dutch East India Company

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

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J.P. de Korte, De jaarlijkse financiële verantwoording in de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff, 1984. Werken uitgegeven door de Vereeniging Het Nederlandsch Economisch Historisch Archief, 17. XIV + 94 blz, 14 appendices. ISBN 90 247 2108 3.

J.J. Steur, Herstel of ondergang. De voorstellen tot redres van de V.O.C. 1740-1795, Utrecht, HES Uitgevers, 1984, 322 blz. ISBN 90 6194 214 4.

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Trends in Historiography
Copyright
Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1984

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Notes

1. Mansvelt, W.F.M., Rechtsvormen Geldelijke beheer bij de Oostindische Compagnie(Amsterdam, 1922)Google Scholar

2. Idem, p. 99 e.v.

3. Glamann, Kristof, Dutch-AsiaticTrade 1620-1740 ('s Gravenhage, 1982), 258.Google Scholar

4. Berg, N.P. van den, Nunt-, crediet-en bankwezen, handel en scheepvaart in Nederlandsch-Indië ('s Gravenhage, 1907) 123CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Glamann, , Dutch-Asiatic Trade, 5354.Google Scholar

5. The matter is made more complicated because in his discussion of the reduction of the various money types to a single value Steur makes a (printing?) error with regard to the periodisation. See Note 24 on p. 24 of his book.

6. See De Korte, pp. 59-64 and Steur, pp. 94 - 5 and 162 - 5. Van der Oudermeulen's memorial was published by D. van Hogendorp in 1802.

7. See e.g. the data in De Korte, pp. 50 - 1 and Appendices 6 and 11; Steur p. 165 and Bijlage XI.

8. Smith, Woodruff, “The European-Asian Trade of the Seventeenth Century and the Modernization of Commercial Capitalism”, Itinerario, (1982), 2, p. 6890.CrossRefGoogle Scholar