{"product_id":"journal-memorials-and-letters-of-cornelis-matelieff-de-jonge","title":"Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdmiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the Dutch Republic for Asia in 1605. He launched an attack on Portuguese Melaka in 1606 and subsequently signed landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607). After returning to the Netherlands in the autumn of 1608, he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and the statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese materials yield candid insights into key issues of trade, security and the diplomacy of regional polities and relations with Spain and Portugal, and they contributed substantially to the formulation of early VOC policy for the Southeast Asian region in the period 1605-20. Here translated into English for the first time, and illustrated with 70 drawings and maps from the period, this collection of treaties, reports and excerpts from Matelieff’s travelogue make a substantial contribution to Southeast Asian and early colonial history, international relations and international law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Borschberg\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and teaches history at the National University of Singapore. He is a also a Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute at the University of Malaya as well as a Guest Professor in Modern History at the University of Greifswald. He has authored \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th- and 17th-century Southeast Asia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c. 1625\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"APD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32123165212785,"sku":"9789971695279","price":64.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/Journals_Memorials_and_Letters_of_Cornelis_Matelieff_de_Jonge_by_Peter_Borschberg_00.jpg?v=1602759962","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/journal-memorials-and-letters-of-cornelis-matelieff-de-jonge","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}