Exploring the Dutch Empire

Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-2000

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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In 1602, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the first commercial company, the Dutch East India Company, and, in so doing, initiated a new wave of globalization. Even though Dutch engagement in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans dates back to the 16th century, it was the dawn of the 17th century that brought the Dutch into the fold of the general movement of European expansion overseas and concomitant globalization.This volume surveys the Dutch participation in, and contribution to, the process of globalization. At the same time, it reassesses the various ways Dutchmen fashioned themselves following the encounter and in the light of increasing dialogue with other societies across the world. As such, Exploring the Dutch Empire offers a new insight into the macro and micro worlds of the global Dutchman in Asia, Africa and the Americas. The result fills a gap in the historiography on empire and globalization, which has previously been dominated by British and, to a lesser extent, French and Spanish cases.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:626 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474236423

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Catia Antunes is Associate Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Globalization in the Early Modern Period (2004).Jos Gommans in Professor of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is author of The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710-1780 (1999) and Mughal Warfare (2002).

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The individual essays are uniformly very good — they are exceptionally readable for this sort of genre, and they are likewise enjoyable and informative — and they collectively immerse the reader in a wide swath of the Netherlands’ overseas colonies and engagements.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceCatia Antunes and Jos GommansIntroductionCatia Antunes PART I: AGENTS1. South Asian Cosmopolitanism and the Dutch Microcosms in Seventeenth-Century Cochin (Kerala)Jos Gommans2. Negotiating Foreignness in the Ottoman Empire: The Legal Complications of Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth CenturyMaurits van den Boogert3. Pioneering in Southeast Asia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Anita van Dissel4. Nodal NdolaRobert Ross and Anne-Lot HoekPART II: NETWORKS5. The Networks of Dutch Brazil: Rise, Entanglement and Gall of a Colonial DreamCatia Antunes, Erik Odegard and Joris van den Tol6. Networks of Information: The Dutch East IndiesCharles Jeurgens7. Paramaribo: Myriad Connections, Multiple IdentificationsPeter Meel8. The Global Dutchman in Indonesian WatersJ. Thomas LindbladPART III: INSTITUTIONS9. ‘Not out of Love, but for Money and Profit’: The Dutch-Japanese Trade from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth CenturiesWim Boot10. Institutional Interaction on the Gold Coast: African and Dutch Institutional Cooperation in Elmina, 1600-1800Henk den Heijer11. Conflict Resolution, Social Control and Law-Making in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Sri LankaAlicia Schrikker12. Curaçao: Insular Nationalism vis-à-vis Dutch (Post-)ColonialismGert OostindieConclusion: Globalizing Empire: The Dutch CaseJos GommansFurther ReadingIndex