Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese and free trade in the East Indies, Peter Borschberg
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Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese and free trade in the East Indies, Peter Borschberg
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-405) and index
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Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese and free trade in the East Indies
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Peter Borschberg
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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 trade. However, the episode raised legal questions and the United Dutch East India Company (VOC) commissioned the young Hugo Grotius to defend Heemskerk's actions. Grotius produced two classic legal texts, The Law of Prize and Booty and its spin-off, The Free Sea, among the greatest works in the history of international legal and political thought. His observations dealt with free trade in the East Indies, the Dutch Republic's military conflict with the Portuguese and Spanish in Asia, and the legal and moral grounds for attacking and plundering Portuguese and Spanish mercantile shipping. --, Provided by publisher
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