The private trade of the British in West Sumatra 1735-1770
The English East India Company first established a permanent post on the West Coast of Sumatra in 1685, in order to ensure continued supplies of Indonesian pepper after the Dutch had effectively excluded the British from the pepper trade of West Java by expelling them from Bantam in 1682. The Compan...
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University of Hull
1977
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.470151 |