The Dutch in Seventeenth-Century Thailand by Smith, George Vinal - 1977

E-369: Northern Illinois Univ Center For. Very Good. 1977. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Northern Illinois University ; Exclusive distribution by the Cellar Book Shop, Detroit, MI. 1977. X, 203 pgs. Center for Southeast Asian Studies Special Report No. 16. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The historiography of the Dutch East India Company (V. O. C. ) moves slowly and ponderously along, in sharp contrast to the rapidity with which the Company itself swept all before it in the seventeenth century. It has occupied the attention of sundry scholars for over a century and yet there are enormous gaps in our knowledge of how the Company operated in the many of its comptoirs. There is still enough to occupy the energies of prospective researchers, still more corners of darkness in our knowledge. Only when these are lit up can we claim to move towards a total… Read More