Genesis and nemesis of the first Dutch colonial empire in Asia and South Africa, 1596-1811 / / by Gerrit Knaap.

• Superior document: Expansion in history ; volume 1
• VerfasserIn: Knaap, G. J., 1954-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Expansion in history ; v. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xli, 472 pages) :; illustrations.

Based upon a sweeping command of Dutch East India Company (VOC) primary sources, Knaap’s manuscript offers a thought-provoking thematic examination and chronological survey of the Dutch Republic’s overseas and colonial expansion in Asia and South Africa, mainly through the VOC and its successors, the Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland and Franco-Dutch Java, over a period of more than two centuries, 1596-1811. It elucidates and deals with several conceptual and theoretical issues that are intrinsically important and germane to a polity’s definition of and how it chooses to execute the process of expansion overseas in the early modern period. One of this work’s major arguments and contributions is its advocacy that the Dutch VOC’s expansion in Asia was an imperial project and must be seen as an act of empire, or, at the very minimum, the attempt to construct one via the innovative utilization of a highly organized and dynamic commercial institution with significant political and diplomatic power and naval and military resources.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gerrit Knaap -- Copyright page / Gerrit Knaap -- Dedication Page / Gerrit Knaap -- Expansion in History Series Editor’s Preface / Gerrit Knaap -- Acknowledgements / Gerrit Knaap -- List of Maps / Gerrit Knaap -- List of Illustrations / Gerrit Knaap -- Glossary and Abbreviations / Gerrit Knaap -- Introduction / Gerrit Knaap -- Chapter 1 Prelude to Empire / Gerrit Knaap -- Chapter 2 Foundation of Empire / Gerrit Knaap -- Chapter 3 Expansion of Empire / Gerrit Knaap -- Chapter 4 Consolidation of Empire / Gerrit Knaap -- Chapter 5 Demise of Empire / Gerrit Knaap -- Chapter 6 The Empire’s Naval and Army Personnel / Gerrit Knaap -- Chapter 7 The Empire’s Ships, Fortifications and Weapons / Gerrit Knaap -- Chapter 8 The Empire’s Voyages, Garrisons and Military Practices / Gerrit Knaap -- Chapter 9 The First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East: Empire among Empires / Gerrit Knaap -- Epilogue / Gerrit Knaap -- Statistics / Gerrit Knaap -- Sources and Literature / Gerrit Knaap -- Index / Gerrit Knaap.