Riches from Atlantic Commerce : : Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817 / / edited by Johannes Postma, Victor Enthoven.

• Superior document: The Atlantic World ; 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Enthoven, Victor,; Postma, Johannes,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Atlantic World ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 525 p., [24] p. of plates ); ill., maps
• Notes: Edited by Johannes Postma and Victor Enthoven.
• Other title: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004474773; 142375543X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Johannes Postma, Victor Enthoven.

While it is generally recognized that the Dutch played a prominent part in the world economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most studies of Dutch long-distance shipping and trade have focused on Asia and neglected the Atlantic region. In this volume, eight scholars contribute their expertise on Dutch trade with Africa, the Americas and the West Indies, and demonstrate that Dutch trade in the Atlantic was far more extensive and valuable than has generally been assumed, and exceeded the trade with Asia at that time. Supported by extensive archival research and quantitative data, the study makes a strong appeal for a reassessment of Dutch maritime commerce of that period, and should stimulate further research of Dutch Atlantic trade. Riches from Atlantic Commerce has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2005). Contributors include: Christopher Ebert, Victor Enthoven, Henk den Heijer, Han Jordaan, Wim Klooster, Eric Willem van der Oest, Johannes Postma, Claudia Schnurmann, and Stuart B. Schwartz.