Author: Masselman, George
Title: The Cradle of Colonialism
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1963. orig. cloth. 24x16cm, viii,534,(6)pp, In a rubbed & slightly torn dustwrapper.. text. plates, maps, ports.. Minor rubbing. Name inked on flyleaf. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Book I : The Land and the People; The Sea; The Sea lanes Become Longer; The Town; Independence at Any Price; Factors of Trade Expansion; From Guilds to Capitalism; Three Merchants and a Minister; Linschoten and His Itinerary; North to the Indies; South to the Indies; The Second and Third Voyages North; Book II: Amsterdam Collects; The RUsh to the Indies; The Prime Mover of the United Company; The Formation of the United East India Company; By Trial and Error; War and Trade Do Not Mix; The Seventeen Under Attack; 1607: The Burgeoning Year; Early Asiatic Trade: the Hindu Period; Background in Asia; The Portuguese Age; Book III: Lan Pieterszoon Coen; The Bottom of the Ladder; Coen's First Contact with the Indies; The English versus the Dutch; The English East India Company; A Servant of the English Company; Up the Ladder; Blueprint for Empire; The Rendezvous; The Price of Monopoly; Second in Command; The Final Rung; 1618; The Crisis; The Siege; The Birth of an Empire; Steps Towards Consolidation; The Conquest of Banda; The English Withdrawal; Monopoly or free Trade?; Mission Accomplished; Epilogue; Afterword: Three Men. Bibliography: p. 477-510.

Keywords: Dutch Colonial History, East India Company, Netherlands, Indonesia, Colonialism, Colony Colonies, Economic Economics, Economy, Southeast Asia