Shallow Waters, Rising Tide.

• Superior document: Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
• VerfasserIn: Knaap, G. J., 1954-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1996.; ©1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Tables and graphs in text
• Preface
• I Introduction
• Part one
• The setting
• II The economic policy of the VOC
• III The ports of Java
• Part two
• Shipping and trade around 1775
• IV Ships and arms
• V Volume, destination and season
• VI Skippers and crews
• VII Ownership and investment
• VIII Trade in and around Batavia
• IX The flow of goods east of Batavia
• X Rice and timber
• XI Salt, sugar, tobacco, and cloth
• XII Fiscal regulations concerning maritime traffic
• Part three
• Long-term perspective
• XIII The evolution of ships
• XIV Development of maritime traffic
• XV Conclusion
• Appendices
• 1 Sources and methods
• 2 Measures and weights
• 3 Shiptypes listed in the private sector outside Batavia, 1774-77
• 4 Average armament according to shiptype in the private sector outside Batavia, 1774-77
• 5 Annual number of shipmoves and volume of shipping in 15 ports, 1774-77
• 6 Direction of shipmoves in the private sector in 15 ports, 1774-77
• 7 Minimum and maximum months of shipping activity according to the most important zones in 15 ports, 1774-77
• 8 Ethnicity of skippers in the private sector outside Batavia, 1774-77
• 9 Place of residence of skippers in the private sector in ports outside Batavia, 1774-77
• 10 Ethnicity and place of residence of skippers in the private sector in ports outside Batavia, 1774-77
• 11 Approximate annual import and export (non-VOC) of the most important commodities in Batavia, 1774-77
• 12 Approximate annual import and export (VOC) of the most important commodities in Batavia, 1774-77
• 13 Approximate annual import and export (non-VOC) of the most important commodities in 13 ports east of Batavia, 1774-77
• Bibliography
• Index.