Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800

Gert Oostindie is Professor of Caribbean History at Leiden University and Director of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). He has published over 30 books and 150 articles on (Dutch) Caribbean history, politics, and anthropology. Jessica V. Roitman is a researcher at the KITLV and a lecturer at Leiden University. She was a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and received a NWO post-doctoral fellowship. She publishes on Atlantic trade, migration, identity, citizenship, and inter-cultural interactions.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures List of ContributorsIntroduction, Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. RoitmanSection 1: Caribbean Encounters1 Curaçao as a Transit Center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies, Wim Klooster2 Paramaribo as Dutch and Atlantic Nodal Point, 1640–1795, Karwan Fatah-Black3 Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean,1621–1733, Christian KootSection 2: European Encounters4 The French Atlantic and the Dutch, Late Seventeeth-Late Eighteenth Century, Silvia Marzagalli5 Anglo-Dutch Economic Relations in the Atlantic World, 1688–1783, Kenneth Morgan6 A Network-Based Merchant Empire: Dutch Trade in the Hispanic Atlantic (1680–1740), Ana Crespo Solana7 A Public and Private Dutch West India Interest, Henk den HeijerSection 3: Intellectual and Intercultural Encounters8 Adultery Here and There: Crossing Sexual Boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic, Aviva Ben-Ur and Jessica V. Roitman9 The Scholarly Atlantic: Circuits of Knowledge Between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Americas in the Eighteenth Century, Karel Davids10 The “Dutch” “Atlantic” and the Dubious Case of Frans Post, Benjamin SchmidtSection 4: Shifting Encounters11 The Eighteenth-Century Danish, Dutch and Swedish Free Ports in the Northeastern Caribbean: Continuity and Change, Han Jordaan and Victor Wilson12 Dutch Atlantic Decline During “The Age of Revolutions”, Gert OostindieSection 5: Perspectives on the Dutch Atlantic13 The Rise and Decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600–1800, Pieter C. Emmer14 Conclusion: The Dutch Moment in Atlantic Historiography, Alison GamesBibliographyIndex