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10 - Dutch and English trade to the East: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700

from Part Two - Trade, Exchange, and Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Jerry H. Bentley
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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By about 1700, the Dutch East India Company i.e. Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) and the English East India Company (EIC) achieved dominant positions in certain sectors of trade in the Indian Ocean region. This chapter deals with the indigenous trading communities and who were their partners and more often their rivals. Increased demand in West Asia for the spices procured by Gujarati merchants at Aceh created a trade circuit that spanned the Indian Ocean, with its mid-point in Surat. The British advantage was that England had in abundance what the Dutch lacked, a store of home-produced light woolens, suitable for crowding out the more expensive Venetian cloth that had an established market in the Levant. By the middle decades of the seventeenth century, Levant Company ships controlled traffic between Italy and the eastern Mediterranean, with only minor competition from the Dutch.
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