Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-2000 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474236413 ISBN 13: 9781474236416

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description

Explores Dutch participation in and contribution to globalisation through a study of the Dutch empire in Asia, Africa and the Americas

About the Author

Catia Antunes is Associate Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the author of Globalization in the Early Modern Period (2004).

Jos Gommans in Professor of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is author of The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710-1780 (1999) and Mughal Warfare (2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474236413
• ISBN 13: 9781474236416
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Antunes Catia, Gommans Jos