The Dutch imperial network continued through the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC. Its brutality could match that of the British East India Company. Both chartered companies acquired political and military power. The British company went further in behaving like a nation-state, but the VOC still joined profit seeking to organized violence overseas. Corporate and imperial authority were therefore closely connected in the period.
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The VOC wielded commercial and state-like power
The Dutch East India Company extended the trading model through coercive power, although it did not become as state-like as its British counterpart.