BearWorks MSU Graduate Theses Fall 2019 The Batavia Massacre: The Tragic End to a Century of Cooperation Kimberly Wilhelmina Wells Missouri State University,
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[email protected]. THE BATAVIA MASSACRE: THE TRAGIC END TO A CENTURY OF COOPERATION A Master’s Thesis Presented to The Graduate College of Missouri State University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts, History By Kimberly Wilhelmina Wells December 2019 Copyright 2019 by Kimberly Wilhelmina Wells ii THE BATAVIA MASSACRE: THE TRAGIC END TO A CENTURY OF COOPERATION History Missouri State University, December 2019 Master of Arts Kimberly Wilhelmina Wells ABSTRACT From its establishment in 1602, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was an extensive and powerful trading company that sought to gain a monopoly over the spice trade in Southeast Asia, often using coercion to do so.