What is it about?
This article looks at VOC privateering incidents in and around the Singapore Straits during the 17th century
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Why is it important?
This is of interest for researchers in history, trade and security studies
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The article plots the stepped up agression of the VOC in the early 17th century to become and instrument of both trade and war.
Dr Peter Borschberg
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: From Self-Defense to an Instrument of War: Dutch Privateering Around the Malay Peninsula in the Early Seventeenth Century, Journal of Early Modern History, January 2013, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15700658-12342356.
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