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.

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations -- List of Maps, Charts, and Graphs -- List of Tables -- List of Appendices -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction, Victor Enthoven & Johannes Postma -- I. INITIAL VENTURES INTO THE ATLANTIC AND THE WEST INDIA COMPANY -- 2. Early Dutch Expansion in the Atlantic Region, 1585-1621, Victor Enthoven -- 3. Dutch Trade with Brazil before the Dutch West India Company, 1587-1621, Christopher Ebert -- 4. The Dutch West India Company, 1621-1795, Henk den Heijer -- II. AFRICAN COMMERCE AND SLAVE TRADE -- 5. A Reassessment of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade, Johannes Postma -- 6. The West African Trade of the Dutch West India Company, 1674-1740, Henk den Heijer -- 7. The Dutch Republic and Brazil as Commercial Partners on the West African Coast during the Eighteenth Century, Stuart B. Schwartz & Johannes Postma -- III. CARIBBEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN TRADE -- 8. Curaçao and the Caribbean Transit Trade, Wim Klooster -- 9. The Curaçao Slave Market: From Asiento Trade to Free Trade, 1700-1730, Han Jordaan -- 10. Representative Atlantic Entrepreneur: Jacob Leisler, 1640-1691, Claudia Schnurmann -- IV. COMMERCE WITH THE GUIANA SETTLEMENT COLONIES -- 11. Suriname and Its Atlantic Connections, 1667-1795, Johannes Postma -- 12. The Forgotten Colonies of Essequibo and Demerara, 1700-1814, Eric Willem van der Oest -- V. GENERAL TRENDS AND IMPACT OF THE DUTCH ECONOMY -- 13. An Overview of Dutch Trade with the Americas, 1600-1800, Wim Klooster -- 14. An Assessment of Dutch Transatlantic Commerce, 1585-1817, Victor Enthoven -- Appendices -- Notes on Methodology, Currencies, Measures, and the Dutch Republic -- Archives and Bibliography -- Index.