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Monsoon Traders - Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Makassar (Paperback)
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Monsoon Traders - Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Makassar (Paperback)
Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 224
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Makassar was one of those early-modern Southeast Asia kingdoms
which has been seen as exemplifying The Age of Commerce, both in
its trade based prosperity in the late sixteenth and early
seventeenth century, and its decline into insignificance following
conquest by the Dutch East Indies Company in 1667. However,
statistical analysis of the Dutch harbourmasters registers (which
listed incoming and outgoing non-Company traffic) reveals that
Makassar actually succeeded in establishing new and profitable
networks after a difficult period of transition. Initially the
Company confined the port's private sector overseas trade and
shipping within narrow limits, but by the middle of the eighteenth
century new routes and traders had emerged. Whereas slaves and rice
had once been predominant exports, focused upon the colonial
centres of Batavia and Maluku, by the mid-1700s sea produce, in
particular sea cucumbers, had become the most important commodity.
This marine product was in great demand in China, and the
consequent dramatic shift in Makassars commercial profile was
reflected in new patterns of exchange, within which Chinese
merchants and skippers gradually surpassed all other ethnicities in
importance. This volume provides detailed material on shipping,
crews, armament, routes, merchandise and skippers, and hence offers
unique insights into both the trade of Makassar itself, and the
wider transformations of Asian commerce in the eighteenth century.
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