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\"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.

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.

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.

Chris Nierstrasz' In the Shadow of the Company, offers us an insight into the relation between the Dutch East India Company and its servants as it slipped into decline. This relationship altered dramatically in the eighteenth century under internal and external pressures.

How comfortable was the life of the average settler in the Dutch Cape Colony of the eighteenth century? The generally accepted view is of a poor, subsistence economy, with little progress being made in the 143 years of Dutch rule (1652-1795). This article shows that new evidence from probate inventory and auction roll records contradicts earlier historical accounts. These documents bear witness to a relatively affluent settler society, comparable to some of the most prosperous regions of eighteenth-century England and Holland. This detailed picture of the material wealth of the Colony should inspire a revision of the standard accounts. The causes and consequences of this prosperity are also considered briefly.

In Geweld in de West bieden tien auteurs onder redactie van Victor Enthoven, Henk den Heijer en Han Jordaan een overzicht van het Nederlandse militaire optreden in het Atlantische gebied tussen 1600 en 1800. De verovering van Indiaanse gebieden, de strijd tussen rivaliserende Europese machten en de gewelddadige slavenhandel zijn diep verankerd in de Atlantische geschiedenis. Ook Nederland heeft daaraan zijn steentje bijgedragen, maar daar is weinig over bekend. In dit boek worden diverse aspecten van die militaire aanwezigheid belicht. Zo wordt de inzet van niet-Nederlandse strijdkrachten overzee beschreven en wordt ingegaan op gewelddadige excessen die zich hebben afgespeeld. De thema's militaire organisaties, militaire expedities en militaire cultuur vormen het hart van deze Atlantische studie.

Article III of the U.S. Constitution establishes an independent federal judiciary: federal courts constitute a separate branch of the national government, federal judges enjoy tenure during good behavior, and their salaries cannot be diminished while they hold office. The framers who drafted Article III in 1787 were not working from whole cloth. Rather, they were familiar with the preceding colonial and state practices, including those from New York. This essay provides a case study of New York's judicial history: the Dutch period, 1621-1664; the Ducal proprietary period, 1664-1685; the Royal period, 1685-1776; and the early state period. As will be seen, New York—among the most significant of the original thirteen states—was a state groping towards a new ideal of judicial independence: an ideal that became a reality a decade after its own constitution was enacted in 1777 and at a different level of government. Significantly, the uncertain status of New York's judiciary had profound consequences for the ultimate expression of judicial independence, judicial review.

In its Asian operations the Dutch United East Indies Company (VOC) (1602–1798) acted both as a territorial ruler and as a trading company. The company shipped large amounts of precious metals to Asia, both in the form of bullion and as coins, to pay for its trade and to provide currency for the areas under its control. The Company faced the problem that silver coins rapidly disappeared from circulation, as demand for silver was high in Asia. The Company attempted to manage the problem with a monetary policy using a unit of account, modelled after the policy of the Dutch Republic. It turned out that the two purposes of the money of account system, viz., putting the bookkeeping on a systematic basis and managing the currency in circulation, were conflicting. The first demanded a fixed unit of account, the second demanded a flexible policy of linking and de-linking the unit of account to real coins. Although the Company managed to muddle through this dilemma, it only succeeded in finding temporary solutions. Dans ses opérations asiatiques la Compagnie des Indes Orientales Unie Hollandaise (VOC) (1602–1798) était à la fois un souverain territorial et une compagnie commerciale. La compagnie envoyait de grandes quantités de métaux précieux en Asie, à la fois sous forme de lingots et en pièces, pour payer pour son commerce et pour fournir des devises aux régions sous son contrôle. La Compagnie faisait face au problème de la disparition rapide des pièces d'argent de la circulation, la demande d'argent étant élevée en Asie. La Compagnie a tenté de gérer le problème avec une politique monétaire utilisant une unité de compte modelée sur la politique de la republique hollandaise. Il s'est avéré que les deux buts du système de compte d'argent, c'est à dire mettre les compatibilités sur une base systématique, et gérer la devise en circulation, étaient contradictoires. Le premier exigeait une unité fixe de compte, le second une politique flexible permettant de lier et de délier l'unité de compte aux pièces réelles. Bien que la Compagnie se soit sortie de ce dilemme, elle n'a réussi qu'à trouver des solutions temporaires. Im Rahmen ihrer Tätigkeit in Asien agierte die Niederländische Ostindien-Kompanie (VOC) (1602–1798) sowohl als territorialer Herrscher als auch als Handelsgesellschaft. Das Unternehmen verschiffte große Mengen an Edelmetallen – in Form von Barren und Mfünzen – nach Asien, um seine Handelsaktivitäten zu finanzieren und für die seiner Kontrolle unterliegenden Gebiete eine Währung bereit zu stellen. Das Unternehmen sah sich mit dem Problem konfrontiert, dass die Silbermünzen sehr schnell aus dem Umlauf verschwanden, da in Asien eine sehr hohe Nachfrage nach Silber bestand. Das Unternehmen versuchte dem Problem mithilfe einer Geldpolitik Herr zu werden, der eine Verrechnungseinheit zugrunde lag, und die dem Modell der Republik der Vereinigten Niederlande nachempfunden war. Es zeigte sich, dass die beiden Zwecke des Geldverrechnungssystems – nämlich die Schaffung einer systematischen Grundlage für die Buchführung und die Verwaltung des im Umlauf befindlichen Geldes – im Widerspruch zueinander standen. Erstere erforderte eine feste Verrechnungseinheit, während letztere eine flexible Politik des Verbindens und Lösens der Verrechnungseinheit an/von realen Münzen verlangte. Obwohl es dem Unternehmen gelang, sich aus diesem Dilemma zu befreien, war es ihm jedoch nur möglich, zeitlich begrenzte Übergangslösungen zu finden. En sus operaciones asiáticas, la Compañía Holandesa de las Indias Orientales Unidas (VOC) (1602–1798) actuó tanto como mandatario territorial como compañía comercial. La compañía enviaba grandes cantidades de metales preciosos a Asia, tanto en forma de oro o plata en lingotes como en monedas, para pagar su comercio y para facilitar moneda para las áreas bajo su control. La Compañía se enfrentó al problema de que las monedas de plata desaparecían rápidamente de la circulación, ya que la demanda de plata era elevada en Asia. La Compañía trató de gestionar el problema mediante una política monetaria utilizando una unidad contable, modelada en base a la política de la República Holandesa. Resultó que los dos propósitos del dinero del sistema de contabilidad, a saber, poner la contabilidad por decalco en una base sistemática y gestionar la moneda en circulación, eran conflictivos. El primero demandaba una unidad de contabilidad fija, el segundo demandaba una política flexible que ligase y desligase la unidad de contabilidad a monedas reales. Aunque la Compañía se las arregló para ir tirando para solucionar este dilema, sólo consiguió encontrar soluciones temporales.

In Geweld in de West belichten Victor Enthoven, Henk den Heijer en Han Jordaan (eds.) en andere auteurs een aantal onbekende aspecten van het Nederlandse militaire optreden in het Atlantische gebied tussen 1600 en 1800.