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Profit and Principle Hugo Grotius Natural Rights Theories and the Rise of Dutch Power in the East Indies 15951615 - Brill's Studies in Intellectual ... Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Author: Martine Julia Van Ittersum, Hugo Grotius

This monograph is a study of the interaction of politics and political theory in The Netherlands and Asia in the early seventeenth century. Its focal point is the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), who developed his rights and contract theories for the benefit of the United Dutch East India Company or VOC. The monograph reconstructs the imme...  more »diate historical context of his political thought, as conceptualized in his early manuscript De Jure Praedae/On the Law of Prize and Booty and Mare Liberum/The Free Sea (1609). It argues that Grotius? justification of Dutch interloping in the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal made possible the VOC?s rise to power in the Malay Archipelago, which resulted in the slow, but steady, loss of selfdetermination on the part of the inhabitants of the Spice Islands.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9789004149793
ISBN-10: 9004149791
Publication Date: 3/15/2006
Pages: 608
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Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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