Autore	Oostindie Gert
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (292 pages)
Altri autori (Persone)	KlinkersInge
Soggetto topico	Decolonization - Netherlands - History - 20th century Decolonization - Caribbean Area Dutch - Caribbean Area - History
ISBN	90-485-0529-1 0-585-49536-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISA-996208531803316

Autore	Oostindie Gert
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (292 pages)
Altri autori (Persone)	KlinkersInge
Soggetto topico	Decolonization - Netherlands - History - 20th century Decolonization - Caribbean Area Dutch - Caribbean Area - History
ISBN	1-003-69377-6 90-485-0529-1 0-585-49536-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Comparative Context: Fragmentation of the British West Indies and the Remnants of Empire -- The Colonial Period -- The Failure of the West Indian Federation -- Re-engagement: The Overseas Territories -- 2. The Comparative Context: The French départements d'outre-mer, Grandeur and Civilisation at a Price -- The Colonial Period -- Decolonisation through Integration -- Assimilation à la française -- 3. The Comparative Context: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Deadlocks in American Geopolitics -- The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico's Status Debate -- The U.S.Virgin Islands: Unincorporated Territory -- 4. Dutch Rule in the Caribbean up until 1940: Careless Colonialism -- Failed Exploitation -- Colonial Administration -- Cultural Divides -- 5. The Dismantling of the Dutch Empire, 1940-1954 -- World War II, Powerless Dutch Colonialism and the Atlantic Charter -- In the Shadow of Indonesia -- The Round-Table Conferences -- The Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1954 -- 6. The Failed Attempt at Model Decolonisation, 1954-1975 -- Exploring the Charter's Margins -- Turning Point: The 1969 Curaçao Revolt -- Negotiating the Independence of Suriname -- The Antillean Refusal -- 7. The Perpetuation of the Transatlantic Kingdom since 1975 -- The Aruban Status Aparte -- A New Dutch Agenda for the 1990s -- Deadlocks and the Margins of Autonomy -- Into the Twenty-First Century -- 8. Illusions and Benefits of 'Reciprocal Assistance': Development Aid -- Towards Structural Aid, 1954-1975 -- Aid to the Antilles and Aruba since 1975: Structural or Finite? -- AComparative Perspective -- 9. A Caribbean Exodus - 177 -- Prelude, 1954-1973 -- The Independence of Suriname and the Exodus, 1973-1980 -- The Antillean Exodus of the 1990s -- A Comparative Perspective. 10. Cultural Exchange, Proximity and Distance -- Dutch Passport, Dutch Language? -- Reciprocal Cultural Exchange? -- A Comparative Perspective -- 11. Epilogue -- Dutch Caribbean Decolonisation in a Nutshell -- Caribbean Decolonisation: a Tentative Balance Sheet -- What Kind of Kingdom? -- The Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexes.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910143538203321

Autore	Noorlander D. L.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (300 pages)
Disciplina	284.249209032
Collana	New Netherland Institute studies
Soggetto topico	Reformed Church Netherlandish colonies Dutch Capitalism - Religious aspects - Protestant churches Calvinism HISTORY - Europe - Western Dutch - Africa, West - History Reformed Church - America - History Calvinism - Netherlands - History Reformed Church - Netherlands - History
Soggetto genere / forma	History Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato	early America, Protestant Reformation, Calvinism, New Netherlands, New Amsterdam, Dutch Brazil
ISBN	1-5017-4033-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction : the role of Reformed Christianity in the commercial and colonial endeavors of the Dutch Golden Age -- The Dutch Reformed Church in the Netherlands and the international concerns of the Calvinist ministry -- The directors of the Dutch West India Company and the religious activity of Dutch merchants in Europe -- Baptized by water and fire : the religious ideology and rites of the company's early fleets and conquests -- The challenges and shortcomings of public worship in the company's first forts and colonial settlements -- Calvinist reformers in Dutch Brazil and the impacts of reform on Portuguese Catholics before the revolt -- Unrighteous rulers, sinful settlers, and religious dissenters in New Netherland and the Dutch Caribbean -- The harvest was great, the laborers few : Dutch mission theology and outreach among Africans and Indians -- Tensions and conflicts over religious resources and power in the West India Company's later years -- Conclusion : the West India Company, the East India Company, and the Catholic powers in comparative perspective.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480019803321