04265nam 22005055 450 991048103300332120210716201828.01-5017-0612-810.7591/9781501706127(CKB)3710000000886447(MiAaPQ)EBC4697810(DE-B1597)496416(OCoLC)959554732(DE-B1597)9781501706127(EXLCZ)99371000000088644720190708d2016 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Dutch Moment War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World /Wim KloosterIthaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (428 pages)1-5017-3586-1 0-8014-5045-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction: The Great Transformation --Chapter 1. The Unleashed Lion --Chapter 2. Imperial Expansion --Chapter 3. Imperial Decline --Chapter 4. Between Hunger and Sword --Chapter 5. Interimperial Trade --Chapter 6. Migration and Settlement --Chapter 7. The Non-Dutch --Epilogue: War, Violence, Slavery, and Freedom --Acknowledgments --Appendix A: The Dutch Slave Trade to the French Caribbean, 1650-1675 --Appendix B: Direct Dutch Slave Trade to the Spanish Empire --Notes --For Further Reading --IndexIn The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World. The Dutch would not have been able to achieve military victories without the native alliances they carefully cultivated. Indeed, the Dutch Atlantic was quintessentially interimperial, multinational, and multiracial. At the same time, it was an empire entirely designed to benefit the United Provinces. The pivotal colony in the Dutch Atlantic was Brazil, half of which was conquered by the Dutch West India Company. Its brief lifespan notwithstanding, Dutch Brazil (1630-1654) had a lasting impact on the Atlantic world. The scope of Dutch warfare in Brazil is hard to overestimate-this was the largest interimperial conflict of the seventeenth-century Atlantic. Brazil launched the Dutch into the transatlantic slave trade, a business they soon dominated. At the same time, Dutch Brazil paved the way for a Jewish life in freedom in the Americas after the first American synagogues opened their doors in Recife. In the end, the entire colony eventually reverted to Portuguese rule, in part because Dutch soldiers, plagued by perennial poverty, famine, and misery, refused to take up arms. As they did elsewhere, the Dutch lost a crucial colony because of the empire's systematic neglect of the very soldiers on whom its defenses rested.After the loss of Brazil and, ten years later, New Netherland, the Dutch scaled back their political ambitions in the Atlantic world. Their American colonies barely survived wars with England and France. As the imperial dimension waned, the interimperial dimension gained strength. Dutch commerce with residents of foreign empires thrived in a process of constant adaptation to foreign settlers' needs and mercantilist obstacles.DutchAmericaHistory17th centuryDutchAfrica, SouthernHistory17th centuryNetherlandsHistory17th centuryNetherlandsCommerceHistory17th centuryElectronic books.DutchHistoryDutchHistory303.48/24920182109032Klooster Wim801069DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910481033003321The Dutch Moment2477172UNINA