The archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the local institutions in Batavia (Jakarta).9789004163652 The archives of the Dutch East India Company Dutch East India Company: see East India Company, Dutch. (VOC (Vertical Online Community) See vertical portal. ) and the local institutions in Batavia (Jakarta). Balk balk the action of a horse when it refuses to obey a command to which it usually responds. See also jibbing. , G. L. et al. BRILL 2007 571 pages $164.00 Hardcover DS632 It created one of history's most famous financial disasters, but in its prime the Verenigde Oostindische Compangnie (VOC), known in English as the Dutch East India Company opened lucrative markets around the world and became incredibly rich. It also became incredible bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu , the result being 25 million pages of records, a good number of which were archived in Jakarta. This collection of financial instruments, banking records, registers, memoranda, letters of credit, credentials, inventory lists hits the high point of the collection, giving readers a good ideas about the volumes of trade, profitability, organizational structure  This article has no lead section.To comply with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, one should be written. in Jakarta and elsewhere when the VOC ruled not only a substantial number of foreign markets but due to the influence of wealth and officially sanctioned monopolies, controlled many a domestic market as well. The editors provide substantial notes. The documents are presented in their original languages, primarily Dutch. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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