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 Presenter: Tristan Mostert (Leiden University).\nThe role of diplomacy and
  treaty-making in early European colonialism has long been an issue of int
 erest to historians\, and the eastern archipelago has provided a particula
 rly rich ground for its study. As the VOC and some of its predecessors tri
 ed to obtain access to\, and soon\, a monopoly on\, the spices originating
  from the region\, they would typically do so by entering into treaties of
 fering protection against a common enemy\, in exchange for exclusive deliv
 eries of the spices in the region at a fixed price.\nMany authors on the t
 opic have been keen to emphasize that these treaties should not be conside
 red a form of equal partnership\, or a recognition of local autonomy\, not
 ing\, for instance\, that for all the lofty European legal theory that und
 ergirded them\, the earliest &nbsp\;such treaties in Maluku were meant to 
 ‘enforce obligation by consent’: an alternative to outright conquest\, per
 haps\, but with the same ultimate goals. Taking this line of reasoning eve
 n further\, Martine van Ittersum has argued that much of this lofty theori
 zing was tailored to the exigencies of the VOC and its expansionist agenda
  in the first place. For the Banda Islands\, for instance\, she contended 
 that these treaties were instrumental in drawing down the Bandanese ever d
 eeper into a spiral of dependence and violence. ‘Coen’s brutal conquest of
  Great Banda presents an inconvenient truth for many global historians wri
 ting today who are eager to ascribe agency to indigenous peoples through v
 arious forms of ‘negotiating’ and ‘resisting’ empire\,’ she darkly observe
 d.\nThis presentation will revisit some of the work of Martine van Ittersu
 m and others on the topic\, and then broaden the scope to treaties outside
  the Banda Islands proper\, investigating whether these treaties and the p
 rocess by which they came about can shed fresh light on the specific and o
 ft-cited example of Banda and place them in a wider regional context.\nTo 
 participate\, please register in advance via:\nseminars@sea-treaties.org
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SUMMARY:Online Seminar: Round and about Banda: protection-tribute treaties 
 in the eastern archipelago in the early 17th century.
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URL:https://sea-treaties.org/index.php/events/14-online-seminar-the-imperia
 l-paper-trail-negotiations-and-treaties-in-or-about-the-banda-islands-in-t
 he-seventeenth-century
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