Three Waves of the European Expansion in the Indo-oceanic World-Economy of the Sixteenth - Early Nineteenth Century: Common and Particular Features
The article analyzes basic similarities and differences in the activity of the Portuguese, Dutch and English in the economic zone of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period (XVI - early XIX century). This activity is compared by the goals set by its agents, the methods used by them and the results achieved for the Indo-oceanic economy. The inseparable connection of economic and non-economic aspects of the European activity in the Orient is stressed. Factors explaining common and particular features in the activity of the representatives of different European powers are distinguished.