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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 Price 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. This book considers the background to the treaties then content and significances, and what Grotius actually knew about Southeast Asian politics and Portuguese institutions of trade and diplomacy when he wrote them. Grotius' work on the freedom of the sea was a cornerstone in his enduring reputation as one of the founders of modern international law. The present book provides a valuable resource for historians of Southeast Asia and for students of international relations, political theory, maritime history and public law.
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""A book that matters: Borschberg brings Southeast Asian studies into dialogue with the Cambridge School of political thought - and in so doing makes an impact on the history of ideas in both seventeenth-century Europe and the Malay Archipelago." (Anthony Milner, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University)
"Based on two decades of research in the manuscript sources of Grotius's De Jure Praedae, Borschberg's book does more than advance our understanding of the historical context of that work. Students of international relations and international law will find in it a smashing refutation of received opinions about Grotius ..." (Terry Nardin, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore)
"This book is a key contribution to the literature on the history of early modern Southeast Asia. Borschberg, who has extensively published on the presence of the Iberians and Dutch in Malay waters, discusses Grotius' famous De iure praedae..., its background, perception and uses in the Netherlands and elsewhere. ... His book should be recommended to readers interested in maritime history, Euro-Asian relations, colonial politics, and conceptual disputes." (Roderich Ptak, Sinological Section, Department of Asian Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
"Historian Peter Borschberg at his best ... an iconoclastic, forensic deconstruction, dissection and critique of 17th century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius' early writings and ideas which laid the theoretical and legal justification for over three centuries of VOC colonial rule in Asia... excellent for a history of ideas course." (Cheah Boon Kheng, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang)
About the author: Peter Borschberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. He is widely published on the history of trade, diplomacy, and international thought in the early modern period with a focus on Europe as well as Southeast Asia."
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Hugo Grotius the Portuguese and Free Trade in the East Indies Peter Borschberg 9789971694678 Books Reviews
- "A book that matters Borschberg brings Southeast Asian studies into dialogue with the Cambridge School of political thought - and in so doing makes an impact on the history of ideas in both seventeenth-century Europe and the Malay Archipelago." (Anthony Milner, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University)
"Based on two decades of research in the manuscript sources of Grotius's De Jure Praedae, Borschberg's book does more than advance our understanding of the historical context of that work. Students of international relations and international law will find in it a smashing refutation of received opinions about Grotius ..." (Terry Nardin, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore)
"This book is a key contribution to the literature on the history of early modern Southeast Asia. Borschberg, who has extensively published on the presence of the Iberians and Dutch in Malay waters, discusses Grotius' famous De iure praedae..., its background, perception and uses in the Netherlands and elsewhere. ... His book should be recommended to readers interested in maritime history, Euro-Asian relations, colonial politics, and conceptual disputes." (Roderich Ptak, Sinological Section, Department of Asian Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
"Historian Peter Borschberg at his best ... an iconoclastic, forensic deconstruction, dissection and critique of 17th century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius' early writings and ideas which laid the theoretical and legal justification for over three centuries of VOC colonial rule in Asia... excellent for a history of ideas course." (Cheah Boon Kheng, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang)
About the author Peter Borschberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. He is widely published on the history of trade, diplomacy, and international thought in the early modern period with a focus on Europe as well as Southeast Asia.
