Riches from Atlantic Commerce : : Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817 /

Riches from Atlantic Commerce : : Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817 / / 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 exp...

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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.
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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.

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