Catia (Hrsg.) Antunes

Exploring the Dutch Empire

Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-2000

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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 encount… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gommans, Jos (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-4742-3643-0
EAN: 9781474236430
Produktnummer: 18437167
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'348 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

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).