The Dutch trading companies as knowledge networks / / edited by Siegfried Huigen, Jan L. de Jong and Elmer Kolfin.

• Superior document: Intersections ; v. 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Huigen, Siegfried.; Jong, Jan L. de.; Kolfin, Elmer.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.)
• Notes: Most of the contributions to this volume were first presented during a conference in the National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) in Leiden, The Netherlands, on October 23-24, 2008.

For more than a century, from about 1600 until the early eighteenth century, the Dutch dominated world trade. Via the Netherlands the far reaches of the world, both in the Atlantic and in the East, were connected. Dutch ships carried goods, but they also opened up opportunities for the exchange of k...