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ID089359
Title ProperOpium and the company
Other Title Informationmaritime trade and imperial finances on Java, 1684-1796
LanguageENG
AuthorSouza, George Bryan
Publication2009.
Summary / Abstract (Note)While trade in opium was of limited financial significance in the eighteenth century to the larger accounts of the Dutch East India Company as a whole, this article shows its critical importance to the Company's comptoir accounts at Batavia. The article examines the VOC's commercial operations at Batavia in the eighteenth century and places opium trade and ipium revenues within that larger context. It examines how the trade in Bengal opium through Batavia changed over time, based on a statistical analysis of the Company's accounts.These results show that opium dwarfed all other individual or groups of commodities that were available to the Company to sell profitably on Java and in the Indonesian Archipelago over the long eighteenth century.
`In' analytical NoteModern Asian Studies Vol. 43, No. 1; Jan 2009: p.113-133
Journal SourceModern Asian Studies Vol. 43, No. 1; Jan 2009: p.113-133
Key WordsOpium - Company ;  Maritime Trade ;  Imperial Finances on Java - 1684-1796 ;  Indonesian Archipelago ;  Eighteenth Century