The world economy had come to a crisis point. China was suffering a major political and dynastic change. Japan closed its doors to contact with the west. It remained for the Vietnamese kingdom of Tonk
In this structural analysis of changing social and economic relations in western Sri Lanka in the mid-18th century, Dewasiri (history, U. of Colombo, Sri Lanka) explores the impact of colonial Dutch a
This study offers an in-depth analysis of the decline of the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) and the subsequent domination of the British Empire in Asia. Author Nierstrasz (Europe's Asian Cent
The fall of the Ming allowed Cheng Ch’eng-kung—alias Coxinga—and his sons to create a short-lived but independent seaborne regime in China’s southeastern coastal provinces that competed fiercely, if o
The island of Taiwan, named Formosa by the Portuguese, was first colonized by the Dutch East India Company in 1624. Chiu (history National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan) has combed both Taiwan
This study of the early modern fortress town of Cochin in India, based on the rarely used VOC archival deposits in the Tamilnadu State Archives in Chennai (Madras), provides an intimate portrait of a
Based on Dutch and English archival sources, this study analyses the political economy of Gujarat in the eighteenth century and situates the economic growth of the region in the broader context of the
The period 1780-1815 was a transitional stage in the colonial history of Sri Lanka (dubbed Ceylon by its colonial overseers), in which Dutch intervention gave way to British control around 1796. Seeki
