7. The policy of the East India Company: trade and territorial expansion, monopoly, regulation of production. [Day, Dutch in Java, chap. 2.]
8. The Dutch in the East Indies. [Rogers, Holland, chaps. 20, 22.]
9. Write a report on Dutch commerce at the height of its prosperity: countries traded with, wares, shipping, fisheries. [Blok, History, vol. 4, book 6, part 3, chap. 1, part 4, chap. 4; vol. 5, book 7, chap. 4.]
10. The Bank of Amsterdam; its peculiarities and historical importance. [Rogers, Holland, chap. 24; Adam Smith, Wealth of nations, Book 4, chap. 3; C. F. Dunbar, Theory and history of banking, N. Y., 2d. ed., 1903, chap. 8.]
11. Forerunners of modern trusts in the Netherlands. [A. Sayous, Early trusts in Holland, Political Science Quarterly, N. Y., 1902, 17: 369-380.]
12. The naval war of the English and Dutch in the time of Cromwell and Charles II. [Manuals of English history.]
13. Dutch commerce in the period of its decline. [Blok, History, vol. 5, book 8, chap. 5; vol. 6, book 9, chap. 3, book 10, chap. 4.]
14. Internal troubles of the Dutch. [Rogers, Holland, chap. 34.]
15. The “contingent system” of the Dutch East India Company. [Day, Dutch in Java, p. 61 ff.]
16. Organization of the Dutch East India Company, and its faults [Dutch in Java, chap. 3.]