Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies

Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies

Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies

9789971694678

NUS Press

    Borschberg, Peter

    01-Jan-2011

    Paperback

S$45.00

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In 1603, Dutch Admiral Jakob van Heemskerk plundered a Portuguese merchantman, the Santa Catarina, travelling from Macao to Melaka. The sale of the cargo at a public auction made traders across Northern Europe aware of the riches to be reaped from Asian t

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