Minutes of Empire : Dutch West India Company Politics, 1618-1648.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bick, Alexander B.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

This book explores how the West India Company was granted a monopoly over all trade and settlement in the Western Hemisphere. It examines why a maritime republic pursued such a vigorous policy of overseas conquest, how its institutions supported this policy, and what contribution colonial expansion made to the larger project of securing Dutch independence from Habsburg Spain.

Contents:

Cover

Minutes of Empire : Dutch West India Company Politics, 1618-1648

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LI ST O F F I GURES AND TABLES

Figures

Tables

Introduction : Into the Boardroom

Meetings and Politics

1 : Setting the Agenda

The Origins of a Company Board

How Many Is Nineteen?

"The Proper Management of the Company"

2 : The Delegations

3 : Urgent Business

News of the Revolt

"How the Conquests in Brazil Shall Be Restored"

4 : Concerning the Government in Brazil

Restructuring the Council

The Search for a New President

"In the Service of Merchants"

The Rituals of Office

5 : Concerning the Slave Tradefrom Angola

Monopoly and Colonial Finance

The States General Decides

The Politics of Compromise

Planning for the Slave Trade

6 : Calculating the Value of the New World

Imaginary Economies

History Counts

Conclusion : The Empire Makes the State

The Company as a Strategic Instrument

The Fall of Dutch Brazil

NOTES

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-758285-0

0-19-758286-9

0-19-758284-2

OCLC:

1574209878