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almahu_9949703743502882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004193567
Series Statement:
Intersections ; v. 14
Content:
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.
Note:
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.
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Preliminary Material /
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Introduction /
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Elias Herckmans. A Poet At The Borders Of Dutch Brazil /
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Officers Of The West India Company, Their Networks, And Their Personal Memories Of Dutch Brazil /
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The Butterfly Effect. Embodied Cognition And Perceptual Knowledge In Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium /
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Picturing New Netherland And New York. Dutch-Anglo Transfer Of New World Information /
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Piracy And Play: Two Catholic Appropriations Of Nieuhof 's Gezantschap /
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Knowledge Transfer And Cultural Appropriation: Georg Everhard Rumphius's 'D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer' (1705) /
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Antiquarian Ambonese: François Valentyn's Comparative Ethnography (1724) /
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Engelbert Kaempfer, Imamura Gen'Emon And Arai Hakuseki. An Early Exchange Of Knowledge Between Japan And The Netherlands /
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Witsen's Studies Of Inner Eurasia /
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(Ex)changing Knowledge And Nature At The Cape Of Good Hope, Circa 1652-1700 /
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A Badly Harvested Field: The Growth Of Linguistic Knowledge And The Dutch Cape Colony Until 1796 /
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Writing History In The Age Of Discovery, According To La Popelinière, 16th-17th Centuries /
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The Model Of The VOC In Early Seventeenth-Century France (Hugo Grotius And Pierre Bergeron) /
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'Aus Den Fürnembsten Indianischen Reisebeschreibungen Zusammengezogen'. Knowledge About India In Early Modern Germany /
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The VOC And Swedish Natural History: The Transmission Of Scientific Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century /
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Unknown Unknowns. Ignorance Of The Indies Among Late Seventeenth-Century Scots /
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Colonial Objects And The Display Of Power. The Curious Case Of The Cabinet Of William V And The Dutch India Companies /
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Index Nominum /
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2010, ISBN 9789004186590
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
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