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Book SynopsisCatia 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).
Trade ReviewThe individual essays are uniformly very good — they are exceptionally readable for this sort of genre, and they are likewise enjoyable and informative — and they collectively immerse the reader in a wide swath of the Netherlands’ overseas colonies and engagements. * The English Historical Review *
[An] excellent and enjoyable overview of Leiden scholarship on Dutch colonial history. * European History Quarterly *
Table of ContentsPreface Catia Antunes and Jos Gommans Introduction Catia Antunes PART I: AGENTS 1. South Asian Cosmopolitanism and the Dutch Microcosms in Seventeenth-Century Cochin (Kerala)
Jos Gommans 2. Negotiating Foreignness in the Ottoman Empire: The Legal Complications of Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth Century
Maurits van den Boogert 3. Pioneering in Southeast Asia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Anita van Dissel 4. Nodal Ndola
Robert Ross and Anne-Lot Hoek PART II: NETWORKS 5. The Networks of Dutch Brazil: Rise, Entanglement and Gall of a Colonial Dream
Catia Antunes, Erik Odegard and Joris van den Tol 6. Networks of Information: The Dutch East Indies
Charles Jeurgens 7. Paramaribo: Myriad Connections, Multiple Identifications
Peter Meel 8. The Global Dutchman in Indonesian Waters
J. Thomas Lindblad PART III: INSTITUTIONS 9. ‘Not out of Love, but for Money and Profit’: The Dutch-Japanese Trade from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
Wim Boot 10. Institutional Interaction on the Gold Coast: African and Dutch Institutional Cooperation in Elmina, 1600-1800
Henk den Heijer 11. Conflict Resolution, Social Control and Law-Making in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Sri Lanka
Alicia Schrikker 12. Curaçao: Insular Nationalism
vis-à-vis Dutch (Post-)Colonialism
Gert Oostindie Conclusion: Globalizing Empire: The Dutch Case Jos Gommans Further Reading Index
