Author Results for Gijs Dreijer
The Afterlife of the Ostend Company, 1727–1745
The Generale Keijzerlijcke Indische Compagnie, known as the Ostend Company or GIC, was a short-lived but very successful chartered company based in the Southern Netherlands between 1722 and 1727. Despite the high profits from the Chinese tea trade, the Habsburg Emperor Charles VI was forced to retract its charter in 1727 under Dutch and English […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Eighteenth C) | East India Company
Subjects include: Merchant Marines