Overview
- Explores the intellectual history of the Dutch empire from the sixteenth century to the postcolonial era, going beyond systemic thinkers to understand how empire was perceived in day-to-day life
- Takes a transnational and transimperial approach to the Dutch empire, connecting European, American, African and Sian contexts by exploring how imperial actors thought about empire
- Bridges the divide between early modern and modern scholarly approaches, revealing and contextualizing the continuities and ruptures in the development of various concepts, ideas and visions of Dutch empire
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Exceptionalism in Visions of Dutch Empire
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Visions of Dutch Empire in Practice
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About this book
Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Reviews
“The intellectual history of empire has boomed over the past twenty years, but, despite outstanding individual contributions, the Dutch empire has not received the same attention as the British or the Spanish in particular. Moreover, the myth of a relatively benign Dutch empire, established by the republic, has been difficult to dislodge. This volume does not simply bring the scholarship into line with the broader historiography of European empires. It leapfrogs it by producing an intellectual history that focuses upon practices more than canonical authors, by exploring the ideas prevalent in colonial government, law and the courtroom, and articulated by imperial agents, while bringing those intermediate actors back into dialogue with a dethroned canon. This brilliant volume is a model for all historians of empire and all intellectual historians.” (Andrew Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
René Koekkoek is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Anne-Isabelle Richard is Assistant Professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Arthur Weststeijn is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600–2000
Editors: René Koekkoek, Anne-Isabelle Richard, Arthur Weststeijn
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27516-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27515-0Published: 27 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27518-1Published: 27 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27516-7Published: 18 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 239
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, Intellectual Studies, World History, Global and Transnational History, Memory Studies, History of Germany and Central Europe