Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Speciale Uitgaven, n?° 37. 1. Pourquoi les factoreries? 2. The European factories in India : a blessing or a curse? 3. The role of British capital in financing the trade of the VOC-factory in Bengal, ca. 1760-1795 4. Company money and private enterprise : the financing of French Asian trade, 1719-1741 6. Factories and country trade. The role of the European factories in the intra-Asian trade during the first half of the 18th century 7. European periphery at the heart of the ocean : the Maladives, 17th-18th centuries 8. Willem Bolts. India regained and lost.Indiamen, imperial factories and country-trade (1775-1785) 9. Dutch factories in Asia (1600-1800) : bridgeheads of political, economic and cultural interaction 10. Naissance d'un protectorat anglais et francais dans l'Inde du sud au milieu du xviiie siecle 11. Porto Novo and the shipping in the Bay of Bengal in the mid-18th century 12. The factories and hongs of the Ostend Company : an assessment 13. The relationship between the Chinese and the Dutch in 18th-century Canton 10. Mission and trade : the MEP in 17th century Siam 11. European soldiers in the service of Travancore in the eighteenth century 12. Trade and commerce between the Canary Islands and Guinea in the 16th century 13. A view of the colonial factories in the litoral area of Benin with a special reference to Dutch settlements 14. European fort communities of the Gold Coast in the era of the slave trade 15. Station navale ou comptoirs? La presence militaire francaise a la cote d'Afrique occidentale de 1783 a 1790 16. The Dutch in West Africa : shipping, factories and colonisation, 1800-1870 17. British imperial trade and West African Kru seamen 18. The aims of the Welser Company in Venezuela, 1528-1556 : trade, conquest, or colonisation? 19. Perahu and Kapal. The interaction of traditional and modern shipping in colonial Indonesia 20. The chameleon.