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The Dutch East India Company: Corporate Greed in the Spice Islands
Before the British Raj, before the Scramble for Africa, there was the VOC — the Dutch East India Company. This episode dives into the brutal machinery behind the world's first megacorporation: how the VOC cornered the nutmeg and clove trade, colonized the Banda Islands, and introduced a system of forced cultivation that would foreshadow modern plantation economies. We follow the rise from a 1602 merger of competing Dutch trading houses to a monopoly enforced by naval blockades, mass executions, and the infamous 'Hongi' expeditions. Along the way, we meet Governor-General Jan…
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