The Dutch trading companies as knowledge networks / edited by Siegfried Huigen, Jan L. de Jong and Elmer Kolfin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huigen, Siegfried.

Jong, Jan L. de.

Kolfin, Elmer.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 14.

Intersections ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.

West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands).

Knowledge, Sociology of--History.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

International travel--History.

International travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than a century, from about 1600 until the early eighteenth century, the Dutch dominated world trade. Via the Netherlands the far reaches of the world, both in the Atlantic and in the East, were connected. Dutch ships carried goods, but they also opened up opportunities for the exchange of knowledge. The commercial networks of the Dutch trading companies provided an infrastructure which was accessible to people with a scholarly interest in the exotic world. The present collection of essays brings together a number of studies about knowledge construction that depended on the Dutch trading networks. Contributors include: Paul Arblaster, Hans den Besten, Frans Blom, Britt Dams, Adrien Delmas, Alette Fleischer, Antje Flüchter, Michiel van Groesen, Henk de Groot, Julie Berger Hochstrasser, Grégoire Holtz, Siegfried Huigen, Elspeth Jajdelska, Maria-Theresia Leuker, Edwin van Meerkerk, Bruno Naarden, and Christina Skott.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / S. Huigen , J. Jong and E. Kolfin

Introduction / Siegfried Huigen

Elias Herckmans. A Poet At The Borders Of Dutch Brazil / Britt Dams

Officers Of The West India Company, Their Networks, And Their Personal Memories Of Dutch Brazil / Michiel Van Groesen

The Butterfly Effect. Embodied Cognition And Perceptual Knowledge In Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium / Julie Berger Hochstrasser

Picturing New Netherland And New York. Dutch-Anglo Transfer Of New World Information / Frans R.E. Blom

Piracy And Play: Two Catholic Appropriations Of Nieuhof ‘s Gezantschap / Paul Arblaster

Knowledge Transfer And Cultural Appropriation: Georg Everhard Rumphius’s ‘D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer’ (1705) / Maria-Theresia Leuker

Antiquarian Ambonese: François Valentyn’s Comparative Ethnography (1724) / Siegfried Huigen

Engelbert Kaempfer, Imamura Gen’Emon And Arai Hakuseki. An Early Exchange Of Knowledge Between Japan And The Netherlands / Henk De Groot

Witsen’s Studies Of Inner Eurasia / Bruno Naarden

(Ex)changing Knowledge And Nature At The Cape Of Good Hope, Circa 1652–1700 / Alette Fleischer

A Badly Harvested Field: The Growth Of Linguistic Knowledge And The Dutch Cape Colony Until 1796 / Hansn De Besten

Writing History In The Age Of Discovery, According To La Popelinière, 16th–17th Centuries / Adrien Delmas

The Model Of The VOC In Early Seventeenth-Century France (Hugo Grotius And Pierre Bergeron) / Grégoire Holtz

‘Aus Den Fürnembsten Indianischen Reisebeschreibungen Zusammengezogen’. Knowledge About India In Early Modern Germany / Antje Flüchter

The VOC And Swedish Natural History: The Transmission Of Scientific Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century / Christina Skott

Unknown Unknowns. Ignorance Of The Indies Among Late Seventeenth-Century Scots / Elspeth Jajdelska

Colonial Objects And The Display Of Power. The Curious Case Of The Cabinet Of William V And The Dutch India Companies / Edwin Van Meerkerk

Index Nominum / S. Huigen , J. Jong and E. Kolfin.

Notes:

Most of the contributions to this volume were first presented during a conference in the National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) in Leiden, The Netherlands, on October 23-24, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-03948-6

9786613039484

90-04-19356-1

OCLC:

714880221

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004186590.i-448 DOI