Pieter C. Emmer (Universiteit Leiden), Jos J.L. Gommans (Universiteit Leiden)

The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9781108449519
• ISBN-10: 1108449514
• Artikelnr.: 59642128

Autorenporträt

Pieter C. Emmer is Professor Emeritus at Leiden University. He is the author of The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880 (1998), The Dutch Slave Trade, 1500-1850 (2006) and is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe (2011) and Who Abolished Slavery? (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Grumbling Hive
Introduction
1. The eighth province
2. The empire at home
3. Dialogue
Conclusion
Part II. The Atlantic World
Introduction
4. The Caribbean
5. New Holland and New Netherland
6. Africa
Conclusion
Part III. Monsoon Asia
Introduction
7. The Dutch tropics
8. The Indian Ocean
9. The South China Sea
Conclusion
Coda.