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The Dutch East India Company: How a Corporation Ruled the Seas
In the early 1600s, a private company from a small republic conquered the global spice trade and built a vast colonial empire. This episode explores the rise of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), from its founding in 1602 to its ruthless dominance over the Indonesian archipelago. We follow the career of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the architect of Batavia (now Jakarta), who ordered the massacre of the Banda Islands to secure a nutmeg monopoly. We examine the company's innovative financial practices—the first stock exchange, the first multinational corporation—and its brutal treatment of local…
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