Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies

by Peter Borschberg

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9971694670
• ISBN13: 9789971694678
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: NUS Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"