LEADER 04234nam 22004935 450 001 9910817093703321 005 20230831232931.0 010 $a1-5017-0612-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501706127 035 $a(CKB)3710000000886447 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4697810 035 $a(DE-B1597)496416 035 $a(OCoLC)959554732 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501706127 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000886447 100 $a20190708d2016 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Dutch moment $ewar, trade, and settlement in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world /$fWim Klooster 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (419 pages) $cmaps 311 0 $a1-5017-3586-1 311 0 $a0-8014-5045-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Great Transformation --$tChapter 1. The Unleashed Lion --$tChapter 2. Imperial Expansion --$tChapter 3. Imperial Decline --$tChapter 4. Between Hunger and Sword --$tChapter 5. Interimperial Trade --$tChapter 6. Migration and Settlement --$tChapter 7. The Non-Dutch --$tEpilogue: War, Violence, Slavery, and Freedom --$tAcknowledgments --$tAppendix A: The Dutch Slave Trade to the French Caribbean, 1650-1675 --$tAppendix B: Direct Dutch Slave Trade to the Spanish Empire --$tNotes --$tFor Further Reading --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aDutch$zAmerica$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aDutch$zAfrica, Southern$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aNetherlands$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aNetherlands$xCommerce$xHistory$y17th century 615 0$aDutch$xHistory 615 0$aDutch$xHistory 676 $a303.48/24920182109032 700 $aKlooster$b Wim$0801069 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817093703321 996 $aThe Dutch moment$93951336 997 $aUNINA