The long goodbye: Hugo Grotius’ justification of Dutch expansion overseas, 1615–1645

Ittersum, Martine Julia van

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“…The image of a colonial "empire" hardly fitted this pattern of self-justification. 64 Nonetheless, with the growing territorial presence of the Dutch in Southeast Asia, the VOC was increasingly portrayed as establishing sovereignty and dominion overseas. Coen hailed his own conquests as "the lands belonging to the Company's sovereignty," and from the 1650s onwards there was a growing emphasis on the "possessions" of the VOC: Van Dam highlighted the Company's actual "residences," De la Court the "conquered Lands overseas," Van Hoorn the colonies established to "strengthen and secure newly gained empires."…”

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The VOC as a Company-State: Debating Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion

Weststeijn¹

2014

Itinerario

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What was seventeenth-century Dutch expansion in Southeast Asia all about? In the traditional historiography, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was predominantly presented as a multinational corporation and non-state colonial actor. Recent research, however, has significantly challenged this view, stressing instead the imperial aspects of VOC rule. This article aims to break new ground by analysing the vocabularies used in seventeenth-century reasoning about Dutch expansion overseas. Focusing on three critics of the VOC from the 1660s and 1670s, Pieter van Dam, Pieter de la Court, and Pieter van Hoorn, the article shows how voices within and outside of the ranks of the Company tried to make sense of the many-faced VOC as a commercial company that was also, in different ways, a state. In an on-going debate that centred on the issues of colonisation, conquest, free trade, and monopoly, the VOC was characterised as a distinctive political body that operated as an overseas extension of the state (Van Dam), as a competitor of the state (De la Court), or as a state as such (Van Hoorn). Following Philip J. Stern's recent analysis of the English East India Company, the VOC should therefore be considered to be a particular political institution in its own terms, which challenged its critics to think about it as a body politic that was neither corporation nor empire, but rather a Company-State.

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The VOC as a Company-State: Debating Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion

Weststeijn¹

2014

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“…There is abundant textual evidence that early modern acquisition theorists were actually colonial apologists, often employed by colonial institutions to defend the legitimacy of the colonial enterprise. According to van Ittersum (2010, p. 385) Grotius' biography is “a lifetime of devotion to the Dutch empire overseas”, and his theory evolved over time in order to accommodate the changing needs of Dutch colonialism (e.g. with significant caveats added to his original theory supporting unrestricted maritime trade).…”

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Territorial rights and colonial wrongs

Ferguson

Veneziani

2020

European J of Philosophy

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What is wrong with colonialism? The standard—albeit often implicit—answer to this question has been that colonialism was wrong because it violated the territorial rights of indigenous peoples, where territorial rights were grounded on acquisition theories. Recently, the standard view has come under attack: according to critics, acquisition based accounts do not provide solid theoretical grounds to condemn colonial relations. Indeed, historically they were used to justify colonialism. Various alternative accounts of the wrong of colonialism have been developed. According to some, colonialism involved a violation of territorial rights grounded on legitimate state theory. Others reject all explanations of colonialism's wrongfulness based on territorial rights, and argue that colonial practices were wrong because they departed from ideals of economic, social, and political association. In this article, we articulate and defend the standard view against critics: colonialism involved a procedural wrong; this wrong is not the violation of standards of equality and reciprocity, but the violation of territorial rights; and the best foundation for such territorial rights is acquisition based, not legitimacy based. We argue that this issue is not just of historical interest, it has relevant implications for the normative evaluation of contemporary inequalities.

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“…VOC mengusir seluruh penduduk pribumi dari daerah pelabuhan Sunda Kalapa sehingga penduduk asli Betawi pun terusir dan tidak diijinkan bertempat ting-gal di sana (Ittersum, 2010;Wibowo, 2015). Orang-orang Belanda yang bekerja untuk VOC moralnya banyak yang tidak baik, dan pejabat-pejabatnya banyak melakukan korupsi serta hidup sangat mewah (Blusse, 2017).…”

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Praktik Akuntansi Betawian dalam Perspektif Kuasa dan Pengetahuan

Budiasih

Erawati

Suardikha

2018

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Praktik Akuntansi Betawian dalam Perspektif Kuasa dan Pengetahuan. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menjelaskan praktik akuntansi Betawian pada masa kekuasaan Belanda. Metode yang digunakan adalah perspektif Foucauldian. Artikel ini menemukan bahwa perspektif kuasa kapitalis menghasilkan pengaruh besar terhadap pemungutan pajak yang dilakukan pada masyarakat Betawi. Kuasa dari kolonialisme Belanda merupakan mekanisme yang dapat menciptakan pengetahuan praktik akuntansi yaitu dalam hal pembuatan aturan pemungutan pajak maupun denda kepada rakyat lokal. Hal ini digunakan sebagai alat untuk melanggengkan kekuasaan dalam jangka waktu panjang.

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The long goodbye: Hugo Grotius’ justification of Dutch expansion overseas, 1615–1645

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The VOC as a Company-State: Debating Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion

The VOC as a Company-State: Debating Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion

Territorial rights and colonial wrongs

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