1. Albert Hyma, The Dutch in the Far East (Ann Arbor: George Wahr, 1942), 54; henceforth cited as AH.
2. D. K. Fieldhouse, The Colonial Empires: A Comparative Survey from the Eighteenth Century (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1966), 145.
3. Alice Clare Carter, Neutrality or Commitment: The Evolution of Dutch Foreign Policy 1667–1795 (London: Edwin Arnold, 1975), 79.
4. Philip Lawson, The East India Company—A History (London: Longman, 1987), 86–144.
5. Vidya Dhar Mahajan, India since 1526 (New Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 1978), esp. 605–06.