Principled Pragmatism: VOC Interaction With Makassar 1637-68 and the Nature of Company Diplomacy

by Carl Fredrik Feddersen

In this study of the Dutch East India Company the author uses the Company's seventeenth century diplomatic interaction with the trading Sultanate of Macassar, on the southwestern tip of present day Sulawesi, as a case in cross cultural diplomacy. The author argues that the outlook of the Company's agents both home and overseas was pragmatic, as was the nature of the solutions to the problems they faced. In doing so, the author challenges propositions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013288750
• ISBN13: 9781013288753
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"