Format:
xiii, 465 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781108428378
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9781108449519
Uniform Title:
Rijk aan de rand van de wereld
Content:
"Dutch overseas expansion in the seventeenth century is a difficult phenomenon for a modern political scientist to explain. In terms of their administrative structure, the long string of Dutch settlements along the coasts of Asia, Africa and America was something between a trading diaspora and an empire. Certainly, Dutch contemporaries themselves neither regarded it as an empire, nor did they feel any sympathies for the very idea of empire. Had they not succeeded in repelling such an empire in a tremendously bloody uprising lasting a staggering eighty years? Their rebellion had been against an imperial tyrant who rode roughshod over their traditional privileges and freedoms"--
Content:
How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colonial power? At the start of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as the centre of a global empire that stretched along the edges of continents and connected societies surrounding the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the Dutch Empire, ideas of religious tolerance and scientific curiosity went hand in hand with severe political and economic exploitation of the local populations through violence, monopoly and slavery. This pioneering history of the early modern Dutch Empire, over two centuries, for the first time provides a comparative and indigenous perspective on Dutch overseas expansion. Apart from discussing the impact of the Empire on the economy and society at home in the Dutch Republic, it also offers a fascinating window into the contemporary societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas and, through their interactions, on processes of early modern globalisation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Adapted translation of: Rijk aan de Rand van de wereld : de geschiedenis van Nederland overzee, 1600-1800. Amsterdam : Bert Bakker, 2012
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Law
Keywords:
Niederlande
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Kolonialismus
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Kolonie
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Geschichte 1600-1800
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Historische Darstellung
DOI:
10.1017/9781108647403
Author information:
Emmer, P. C. 1944-
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