The Dutch overseas empire, 1600-1800 /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Adapted translation of: Rijk aan de Rand van de wereld : de geschiedenis van Nederland overzee, 1600-1800. Amsterdam : Bert Bakker, 2012. |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the Dutch. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-442) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108428378 1108428371 9781108449519 1108449514 |