The colourful world of the VOC – ELS JACOBS; Leo Akveld Nu Kopen

With this work, Akveld and Jacobs commemorate the four-hundred year anniversary of the founding of the United East India Company, or by its Dutch initials, the VOC, which became the largest shipping organization in the world due to its monopoly on all Dutch trading and shipping to Asia. The authors draw on a remarkable selection of rare art, exquisite objects and documents to chronicle the VOC’s expansion in the East through a combination of military force, commercial contacts and diplomacy in Indonesia, Ch…