Title Profit and principle : Hugo Grotius, natural rights theories and the rise of Dutch power in the East Indies, 1595-1615 / by Martine Julia van Ittersum

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (lxii, 538 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 139 Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 139. Contents Jacob van Heemskerck's capture of the Santa Catarina and its justification in De Jure Praedae (1604-1606) -- Hugo Grotius and the Spanish black legend: humanist historiography and moral philosophy in De Jure Praedae --Why was De Jure Praedae written? -- Hugo Grotius and the peace negotiations between Spain and the United Provinces, 1607-1608 -- Hugo Grotius and the truce negotiations between Spain and the United Provinces, 1608-1609 -- VOC spokesman and lobbyist during the Twelve Years' Truce Summary 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 selfdetermination on the part of the inhabitants of the Spice Islands Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-510) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645. SUBJECT Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645 fast Grotius, Hugo. swd Subject Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie -- History East India Company -- History SUBJECT East India Company fast Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie fast Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie gnd Subject Natural law. International law -- History -- 17th century International relations. Imperialism. international relations. LAW -- International. Commerce Imperialism International law International relations Natural law Machtpolitik Wirtschaftspolitik Grundrecht Natuurrecht. Politieke filosofie. Overzeese expansie. Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie. SUBJECT Netherlands -- Commerce -- East Indies East Indies -- Commerce -- Netherlands Subject Asia -- East Indies Netherlands Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645. ISBN 9781435614796 1435614798 9789047408949 9047408942

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