What is it about?
This chapter examines the rise of VOC's policy of privateering at the beginning of the 17th century.
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Why is it important?
The VOC was an organization that engaged both in trade and war. At the beginning of its corporate lifespan, the VOC reaped considerable profit from despoiling their European enemies in Asia.
Perspectives
This chapters looks at the VOC as a hybrid organization engaged in commerce and war.
Dr Peter Borschberg
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: From Self-Defence to an Instrument of War: Dutch Privateering Around the Malay Peninsula in the Early Seventeenth Century, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-085-8_3.
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