DECENTRALIZED COLONIZATION TYPOLOGIES IN OPERATIONSOF THE DANISH EAST INDIA COMPANY
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-676X-2018-5-89-100
Abstract
The research convers the decentralized forms of colonial expansion, which suppose the optimization of the annexed overseas territory topology and estab-lishment of direct control only in the centers of production, trade, and transport cross-roads. Such state of affairs was somehow concomitant to the first transna-tional corporations (TNC), especially to the East India Companies (EIC). It has been argued that the abovementioned from of colonial policy were successfully implemented by the Danish EIC - Østindisk Kompagni - after 1616 (as it was reorganized into the second company in 1670 and into the Asiatisk Kompagni in 1732) as it established factories in Tranquebar, other parts of India, and China. The Company also outreached intra-Asian trade and shipped cargoes for rivalling European merchants to Copenhagen for re-exportation. The im-portant role of private capital in the Danish EIC has been stipulated, since it had allowed optimization of overseas administration costs. The patterns of trade diversified as the Company had relinquished the monocentric topology of suppling colonial cargoes to the home country, as the first TNCs were apt to follow.
About the Author
Andrey L. Sapuntsov
Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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