Books in English about the Dutch East India Company

Although the contents of this website are mainly in Dutch, we believe that a separate list of books and articles in the English language concerning the Dutch East India Company will address a broad public outside the Netherlands. Note that some of the books are only partly in English.

RGP-GS166, 1979. - Dutch-Asiatic Shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries, Volume II, Outward-bound voyages from the Netherlands to Asia and the Cape (1595-1794). Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. - 765 p.: [en] (Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën, Grote Serie, Nr. 166) ISBN 90-247-2270-5

RGP-GS167, 1979. - Dutch-Asiatic Shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries, Volume III, Homeward-bound voyages from Asia and the Cape to the Netherlands (1597-1795). Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. - 626 p.: [en] (Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën, Grote Serie, Nr. 167) ISBN 90-247-2282-9

Roever, Arend G. de, en Bea Brommer, 2008. - Grote Atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie / Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company : III Indische Archipel en Oceanië / Malay Archipelago and Oceania. Voorburg: Uitgeverij Asia Maior / Atlas Maior et.al., 2008. - 424 p.: [nl, en] ISBN 978-90-74861-28-1

Rønning, Bjørn R., 1979. - Akerendam : The story of the Runde Treasure. Oslo: Norsk Numismatisk Forlag, 1979. - 92 pp.: [en]

Ruangsilp, Bhawan , 2007. - Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya : Dutch Perceptions of the Thai Kingdom, c.1604-1765. Leiden: Brill, 2007. - 284 pp.: [en] (TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction, Volume 8) ISBN-13: 978-9004156-00-5 No European country enjoyed such long-standing relations with the Thai Kingdom of Ayutthaya as the Netherlands. This study focuses on the perceptions of the merchants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) of the Thai royal court in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Basing herself on a wealth of Dutch primary sources, the author shows how trade, politics, and diplomacy shaped a unique relationship based on ‘partnership’ and a ‘sense of differences’. The book contributes to expanding the study of the history of Ayutthaya—known for its scarcity of sources— with the help of contemporary Dutch views.

Schilder, Günter, en Hans Kok, 2010. - Sailing for the East : History and catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602-1799. Houten: Hes & de Graaf Publishers, 2010. - 708 pp.: [en] (Utrecht Studies of the History of Cartography (EXPLOKART), vol. 10) ISBN 978-90-6194-260-3

Schilder, Günter, et al. (samenst.), 2006. - Grote Atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie / Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company : I Atlas Isaac de Graaf / Atlas Amsterdam. Voorburg: Uitgeverij Asia Maior / Atlas Maior, 2006. - 420 p.: [nl, en] ISBN 90-74861-26-1

Schrikker, Alicia, 2007. - Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815 : Expansion and Reform. Leiden: Brill, 2007. - 272 p.: [en] (TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction, 7) ISBN-13: 978-9004156-02-9 This study examines the colonial intervention in Sri Lanka at the end of the eighteenth century, when British rule replaced Dutch rule on the island. It focuses on the local reforms in the Dutch administration and policymaking on the island prior to the take-over and the various ways in which the British colonial government dealt with the Dutch legacy. Native agency in the colonial state formation process, the influence of the revolutions that swayed Europe at the time and changes in Dutch and British colonial exploitation are addressed respectively in an effort to characterize the transition of colonial regimes in Asia during this revolutionary era.

Shimada, Ryuto, 2006. - The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century. Leiden: Brill, 2006. - 240 p.: [en] (TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction, 4) ISBN-13: 978-9004150-92-8 In this definitive study of the intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper trade by the Dutch East India Company, the author argues that the trade in this commodity reaped high profits. Despite the huge imports of British copper by the English East India Company during the eighteenth century, the Dutch Company successfully continued to sell Japanese copper in South Asia at higher prices. Compared to the capital-intensive development of British mines in the age of the Industrial Revolution, the copper production in Tokugawa Japan was characterized by a labour-intensive 'revolution' which also made a big impact on the local economy.

Slot, B.J., 1992. - Abel Tasman and the discovery of New Zealand. Amsterdam: Otto Cramwinckel, 1992. - 126 p.: [en] ISBN 90-71894-355

Smith, George Vinal, 1977. - The Dutch in Seventeenth-century Thailand. Northern Illinois University, 1977. - 203 pp.: [en] ISBN 9781877979668

Stevens, Harm, 2015. - Bitter spice : Indonesia and the Netherlands from 1600. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt, 2015. - 180 pp.: [en] ISBN 978 94 6004 251 5

Terwiel, Barend Jan (vert.), 2008. - A traveler in Siam in the year 1655 : extracts from the journal of Gijsbert Heeck, 16 November 1654 and 12 August - 18 October 1655. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2008. - 124 p.: [en] ISBN 978-906-7183-27-7

Turner, M., 1988. - Shipwrecks & Salvage in South Africa, 1505 to the present. Cape Town: 1988: [en]

Veenendaal, Jan, 1985. - Furniture from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India during the Dutch period. Delft: Volkenkundig museum Nusantara, 1985. - 186 p.: [en] ISBN 90-71423-02-6

Veenstra, J., 1983. - East India Company en de Indiase steden, 1600-1800. Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1983. - 56 p.: [en] (Werkstukken. Planol. en Demogr. Inst. ; no. 61)

Velde, Paul van der, 1989. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. IV 1710-1720 . Leiden: Center for the History of European Expansion, 1989. - 217 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta ; no. 11)

Velde, Paul van der, 1990. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. V 1720-1730 . Leiden: Center for the History of European Expansion, 1990. - 344 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta, ISSN 0165-2850 ; no. 14)

Velde, Paul van der, 1991. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. VI 1730-1740 . Leiden: Center for the History of European Expansion, 1991. - 344 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta, ISSN 0165-2850 ; no. 16)

Velde, Paul van der, 1993. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. VII 1740-1760 . Leiden: Center for the History of European Expansion, 1993. - 450 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta, ISSN 0165-2850 ; no. 18)

Velde, Paul van der, en Cynthia Viallé, 1995. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. VIII 1760-1780 . Leiden: Center for the History of European Expansion, 1995. - 240 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta, ISSN 0165-2850 ; no. 19)

Velde, Paul van der, en Ton Vermeulen, 1990. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. III 1700-1710 . Leiden: Center for the History of European Expansion, 1990. - 276 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta ; no. 10)

Vermeulen, A.C.J., 1987. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. II 1690-1700 . Leiden: Center for the History of European Expansion, 1987. - 210 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta ; no. 8)

Vermeulen, Ton, 1986. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. I 1680-1690 . Leiden: Center for the History of European Expansion, 1986. - 127 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta ; no. 6)

Viallé, Cynthia, en Leonard Blussé, 2010. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. XIII 1660-1670. Leiden: Institute for the History of European Expansion, 2010. - 421 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta ; no. 27)

Viallé, Cynthia, en Leonard Blussé, 2001. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. XI 1641-1650. Leiden: Institute for the History of European Expansion, 2001. - 440 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta, ISSN 0165-2850 ; no. 23)

Viallé, Cynthia, en Leonard Blussé, 2005. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. XII 1650-1660. Leiden: Institute for the History of European Expansion, 2005. - 481 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta ; no. 25)

Viallé, Cynthia, en Leonard Blussé, 1997. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. X 1790-1800. Leiden: Institute for the History of European Expansion, 1997. - 235 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta, ISSN 0165-2850 ; no. 21)

Viallé, Cynthia, en Leonard Blussé, 1996. - The Deshima dagregisters : their original tables of contents : Vol. IX 1780-1790. Leiden: Institute for the History of European Expansion, 1996. - 301 p.: [en] (Intercontinenta, ISSN 0165-2850 ; no. 20)

Viljoen, Russel, 2006. - Jan Paerl, a Khoikhoi in Cape Colonial Society 1761-1851. Leiden: Brill, 2006. - 214 p.: [en] ( TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction, 1) ISBN-13: 978-9004150-93-5 Jan Paerl (1761-1851) was the initiator of what is arguably the first millenarian movement in colonial South Africa. In this biography of the Khoikhoi Jan Paerl light is being shed on this new form of resistance against colonial domination in Cape society. As the prophet, Onsen Liewen Heer, Paerl initiated a quasi-millenarian movement by persuading believers to reassert their Khoikhoi identity and reclaim the “land of their forefathers”. This study discusses Paerl’s post-prophetic activities, his trial and incarceration, the clash with his colonial master, his appropriation of mission Christianity and his last years as a Moravian Christian.