Exploring the Dutch Empire : agents, networks and institutions, 1600-2000
Cátia Antunes (Editor), Jos J. L. Gommans (Editor)
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. -- Provided by publisher
History
xx, 297 pages ; 24 cm
9781474236423, 9781474236416, 1474236421, 1474236413
907140668
South Asian cosmopolitanism and the Dutch microcosms in seventeenth-century Cochin (Kerala) / Jos Gommans
Negotiating foreignness in the Ottoman Empire : the legal complications of cosmopolitanism in the eighteenth century / Maurits van den Boogert
Pioneering in Southeast Asia in the first half of the nineteenth century / Anita van Dissel
Nodal Ndola / Robert Ross and Anne-Lot Hoek
Networks of Dutch Brazil : rise, entanglement and fall of a colonial dream / Catia Antunes, Erik Odegard and Joris van den Tol
Networks of information : the Dutch East Indies / Charles Jeurgens
Paramaribo : myriad connections, multiple identifications / Peter Meel
Global Dutchman in Indonesian waters / J. Thomas Lindblad
"Not out of love, but for money and profit" : Dutch-Japanese trade from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Wim Boot
Institutional interaction on the Gold Coast : African and Dutch Institutional Cooperation in Elmina, 1600-1800 / Henk den Heijer
Conflict resolution, social control and law-making in eighteenth-century Dutch Sri Lanka / Alicia Schrikker - Curaçao : insular nationalism vis à vis Dutch (post)colonialism / Gert Oostindie
Globalizing empire : the Dutch case / Jos Gommans