Profit and Principle

Hugo Grotius, Natural Rights Theories and the Rise of Dutch Power in the East Indies, 1595-1615
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-14979-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 139, 538 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 1209 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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 immediate 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 self-determination on the part of the inhabitants of the Spice Islands.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ittersum, Martine van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Jacob van Heemskerck’s Capture of the Santa Catarina and Its Justification in De Jure Praedae (1604–1606)
2. Hugo Grotius and the Spanish Black Legend: Humanist Historiography and Moral Philosophy in De Jure Praedae
3. Why Was De Jure Praedae Written?
4. Hugo Grotius and the Peace Negotiations between Spain and the United Provinces, 1607–1608
5. Hugo Grotius and the Truce Negotiations between Spain and the United Provinces, 1608–1609
6. VOC Spokesman and Lobbyist during the Twelve Years’ Truce

Epilogue

Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martine Julia van Ittersum, Ph.D. (2002) in History, Harvard University, is Lecturer in European History at the University of Dundee in Scotland (UK).