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Principled Pragmatism: VOC Interaction with Makassar 1637-68 and the Nature of Company Diplomacy

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dc.creator Fredrik Feddersen, Carl
dc.date 2017-09-01 23:55:55
dc.date 2018-06-28 15:17:11
dc.date 2020-04-01T13:24:38Z
dc.date 2020-04-01T13:24:38Z
dc.date 2017
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T10:45:23Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T10:45:23Z
dc.identifier 638070
dc.identifier OCN: 1030818957
dc.identifier http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31129
dc.identifier https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/catalog/book/23
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/203178
dc.description In this study of the Dutch East India Company the author uses the Company’s seventeenth century diplomatic interaction with the trading Sultanate of Macassar, on the southwestern tip of present day Sulawesi, as a case in cross cultural diplomacy. The author argues that the outlook of the Company’s agents both home and overseas was pragmatic, as was the nature of the solutions to the problems they faced. In doing so, the author challenges propositions of Company ethnocentric tunnel vision in its thinking about, and practice of overseas diplomacy. He also run counter with propositions that the communication between Company agents and their Asian friends and foes represented a miscommunication caused by structural cultural barriers. The study is based on analysis of the political language of the Company at the respective levels of operation.
dc.description I denne studien av Det nederlandsk-ostindiske kompani tilbakeviser forfatteren tidligere påstander om Kompaniets diplomatiske tankemåte og praksis. Gjennom en analyse av den diplomatiske interaksjonen mellom Kompaniet og Sultanatet Makassar (sør på dagens Sulawesi) gjendrives påstander om at et etnosentrisk tunnelsyn formet Kompaniets oversjøisk diplomati. Gjennom en dekoding av Kompaniets politiske språk, slår forfatteren fast at Kompaniet tvert imot fremstod som pragmatisk og primært la til grunn vurderinger av lokale maktpolitiske forhold i sin interaksjon med de lokale makthaverne.
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing)
dc.rights open access
dc.subject makasser
dc.subject dutch east india company
dc.subject diplomacy
dc.subject voc
dc.subject Buginese people
dc.subject Cornelis Speelman
dc.subject Maluku Islands
dc.subject South Sulawesi
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLH Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
dc.title Principled Pragmatism: VOC Interaction with Makassar 1637-68 and the Nature of Company Diplomacy
dc.title 638070.pdf
dc.resourceType book
dc.alternateIdentifier 9788202566609
dc.alternateIdentifier 10.23865/noasp.23
dc.licenseCondition Attribution 4.0 International
dc.identifierdoi 10.23865/noasp.23
dc.relationisPublishedBy bf7b42a4-6892-42e3-aaf8-8f32c8470a8b
dc.relationisbn 9788202566609
dc.pages 375
dc.relationisFundedBy e986e1bf-97d2-46f6-910c-91340657ef7b
dc.placepublication Oslo
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dc.abstractotherlanguage I denne studien av Det nederlandsk-ostindiske kompani tilbakeviser forfatteren tidligere påstander om Kompaniets diplomatiske tankemåte og praksis. Gjennom en analyse av den diplomatiske interaksjonen mellom Kompaniet og Sultanatet Makassar (sør på dagens Sulawesi) gjendrives påstander om at et etnosentrisk tunnelsyn formet Kompaniets oversjøisk diplomati. Gjennom en dekoding av Kompaniets politiske språk, slår forfatteren fast at Kompaniet tvert imot fremstod som pragmatisk og primært la til grunn vurderinger av lokale maktpolitiske forhold i sin interaksjon med de lokale makthaverne.


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