Realm between Empires , livre ebook

215

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English

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2018

Écrit par
Gert Oostindie , Wim Klooster

Publié par
Cornell University Press

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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 mai 2018

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781501719608

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

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Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680-1815), the authors argue, marked a distinct and significant era in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart a more autonomous path.The loss of Brazil and New Netherland were twin blows to Dutch imperial pretensions. Yet the Dutch Atlantic hardly faded into insignificance. Instead, the influence of the Dutch remained, as they were increasingly drawn into the imperial systems of Britain, Spain, and France. In their synthetic and comparative history, Klooster and Oostindie reveal the fragmented identity and interconnectedness of the Dutch in three Atlantic theaters: West Africa, Guiana, and the insular Caribbean. They show that the colonies and trading posts were heterogeneous in their governance, religious profiles, and ethnic compositions and were marked by creolization. Even as colonial control weakened, the imprint of Dutch political, economic, and cultural authority would mark territories around the Atlantic for decades to come.Realm between Empires is a powerful revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and provides a much-needed counterpoint to the more widely known British and French Atlantic histories.

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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 mai 2018

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781501719608

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

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