Download or read book In the Shadow of the Company: The Dutch East India Company and Its Servants in the Period of Its Decline (1740-1796) written by Chris Nierstrasz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Nierstrasz’ In the Shadow of the Company, offers us an insight into the relation between the Dutch East India Company and its servants as it slipped into decline. This relationship altered dramatically in the eighteenth century under internal and external pressures.