Exploring the Dutch Empire : agents, networks and institutions, 1600-2000 / edited by Catia Antunes and Jos Gommans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Antunes, Cátia, 1976- editor.

Gommans, Jos J. L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

History.

Globalization.

Colonies.

Netherlands--Colonies--History.

Netherlands.

Globalization--Netherlands--History.

Netherlands--History.

Netherlands--Foreign relations--History.

Physical Description:

xx, 297 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9781474236423

1474236421

1474236413

9781474236416

OCLC:

907140668