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A native of Bruges (now part of Belgium), Jacques de Coutre was a gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia in the early 17th century. In addition to a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid, he wrote a series of memorials to the united crown of Spain and Portugal that contain recommendations designed to reverse the decline in the fortunes of the Iberian powers in Southeast Asia, particularly against the backdrop of early Dutch political and commercial penetration into the region. Translated into English for the first time, these materials provide a valuable first-hand account of the bigger issues confronting the early colonial powers in Southeast Asia, and deep insights into the societies De Coutre encountered in the territory that today makes up Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the Dutch Republic for Asia in 1605. He launched an attack on Portuguese Melaka in 1606 and subsequently signed landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607). After returning to the Netherlands in the autumn of 1608, he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and the statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. These materials yield candid insights into key issues of trade, security, the diplomacy of regional polities and relations with Spain and Portugal, and they contributed substantially to the formulation of early VOC policy for the Southeast Asian region in the period 1605-20. Here translated into English for the first time, and illustrated with 70 drawings and maps from the period, this collection of treaties, reports and excerpts from Matelieff’s travelogue make a substantial contribution to Southeast Asian and early colonial history, international relations and international law. (http://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/2015-journal-memorials-and-letters-of-cornelis-matelieff-de-jonge-security-diplomacy-and-commerce-in-17th-century-southeast-asia?variant=1302894468)
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"This book offers annotated translations of documents touching on Dutch admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge and his voyage to Asia between 1605 and 1608. These translations are aimed at a contemporary English-speaking Asian readership interested in the early modern history of European trade, warfare and expansion in Southeast Asia with a focus on Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Researchers specialising in early European colonialism, international law, international relations, security studies, and diplomatic history will also find that the documents translated in this volume offer new and unfamiliar perspectives. Materlieff’s business acumen, military and diplomataic prowess as well as his vision of empire all have implications for examining not only European expansion into Southeast Asia, but also into other regions at large, including especially south Asia, Africa and the Americas. Admiral Matelieff was a director of the Rotterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) formed in 1602. He was appointed fleet commander on one of the company’s first voyages to Asia. Matelieff’s mission was both commercial and military: he launched a major sea-borne attack on the Portuguese colony of Melaka, arranged for the signing of treaties with the rulers of Johor, Aceh and Ternate, and founded the first Dutch fort on the island of Ternate. His endeavours, however, to open the Chinese market for the Dutch company proved unsuccessful. Following his return to the Dutch Republic in September 1608, Matelieff penned a series of memorials and letters. In these he advanced recommendations for changing the way the company organized its fleets and conducted business. More importantly he offered his Dutch contemporaries a vision of empire in Asia. The materials contained in this volume offer important observations of a perceptive analyst who was also determined to grasp the political and economic structures of Asia, and also of inter-state relations in across this vast region. At a time of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, French and English engagement in Southeast Asia, Matelieff sought to critically assess and strategize on the ways in which Europeans were increasingly engaging with Asian polities and their rulers. This book will be released for sale in Australasia and Europe in June 2014 and available in the Americas after September 2014 """"
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Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia2016 •
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The aim of this article is to reassess the nature of the Luso-Dutch relationship in Siam during the seventeenth century. Analysing Dutch sources exclusively allows one to be aware of important key-features of Dutch perception, and to obtain an image of the Portuguese presence in the region. With those methodological tools, the official version of bitter rivalry expressed in Portuguese sources can be questioned. Was the Dutch-Portuguese relationship defined by rivalry or was there space for partnership? Siam (modern Thailand) was an independent kingdom which had never been occupied by the Portuguese or by the Dutch, being for that same reason an ideal field of study. In addition, the interaction between Siamese local powers and Europeans in solving conflicts that resulted from Dutch-Portuguese rivalry is another aspect to be taken into account. The Dutch-Portuguese rivalry will be disassembled here, and each part analysed separately. The cooperative moments between the two people disclosed by Dutch sources will have special coverage, as they present us with a renewed perspective of the Luso-Dutch relationship. Finally, through the case study of the bandel de Sião (the Portuguese settlement in Ayutthaya) it will be shown how essential Dutch archival material can be for a study of the Portuguese presence in mainland Southeast Asia. Key-words Siam; Ayutthaya; VOC; bandel de Sião; Dutch-Portuguese rivalry; partnership; perception;
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Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800
Batu Sawar Johor: a regional centre of trade in the early seventeenth century2015 •
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