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Emerging Memory
This incisive volume brings together postcolonial studies, visual culture and cultural memory studies to explain how the Netherlands continues to rediscover its history of violence in colonial Indonesia. Dutch commentators have frequently claimed that the colonial past and especially the violence associated with it has been 'forgotten' in the Netherlands. Uncovering 'lost' photographs and other documents of violence has thereby become a recurring feature aimed at unmasking a hidden truth. The author argues that, rather than absent, such images have been consistently present in the Dutch public sphere and have been widely available in print, on television and now on the internet. Emerging Memory: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance shows that between memory and forgetting there is a haunted zone from which pasts that do not fit the stories nations live by keep on emerging and submerging while retaining their disturbing presence.
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Empire and science in the making : Dutch colonial scholarship in comparative global perspective, 1760-1830
\"By the dawn of the 19th century, the Netherlands had established colonies and trading posts across Asia and the rest of the world, linking them directly to international networks of intellectual exchange and production. Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia. The results are of significant interest for historians, anthropologists, geographers, scholars of the history and philosophy of science\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Global Calvinism
A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist
missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern
period \"A tour de force offering the reader the
best study of global Calvinism in the realms of the Dutch East
India Company.\"-Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, editor,
Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden
Age Calvinism went global in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, as close to a thousand Dutch Reformed
ministers, along with hundreds of lay chaplains, attached
themselves to the Dutch East India and West India companies. Across
Asia, Africa, and the Americas where the trading companies set up
operation, Dutch ministers sought to convert \"pagans,\" \"Moors,\"
Jews, and Catholics and to spread the cultural influence of
Protestant Christianity. As Dutch ministers labored under the
auspices of the trading companies, the missionary project
coalesced, sometimes grudgingly but often readily, with empire
building and mercantile capitalism. Simultaneously, Calvinism
became entangled with societies around the world as encounters with
indigenous societies shaped the development of European religious
and intellectual history. Though historians have traditionally
treated the Protestant and European expansion as unrelated
developments, the global reach of Dutch Calvinism offers a unique
opportunity to understand the intermingling of a Protestant faith,
commerce, and empire.
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Dutch Scholarship in the Age of Empire and Beyond
How was it possible for the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) to grow from a learned society with fewer than a hundred members and only one partly salaried employee in 1851 into a modern professional institute with 1800 members and a staff of over fifty in 2001? This book provides the answer to this question.
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Realm between empires : the second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815
\"The Dutch Atlantic during an era (following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century) in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart a more autonomous path. A revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, a counterpoint to the more widely known British and French Atlantic histories\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands
Drawing on a growing interest in the theoretical concept of boundaries, the contributors to this volume seek to understand the process of drawing boundaries, both real and imagined, and the consequences of these processes in the history of the Low Countries.
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Imagining the Americas in Print
In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which early modern Europe gathered information and manufactured knowledge about the Americas, and used it to further their colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world.
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