The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800
Author : C. R. Boxer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Netherlands
ISBN : 9780091310516
The British Seaborne Empire
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300103861
Book Description
"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, climaxing in the fascination with the Pacific in the age of Captain Cook, and continuing into the nineteenth century, with Franklin in the Arctic and Ross in the Antarctic. The oceans offered much more than fascination. In England, from the late sixteenth century, maritime conflict and imperial strength were seen as important to national morale and reputation and without it there would have been no empire, or at least not in the form it actually took."--BOOK JACKET.
The European Seaborne Empires
Author : Gabriel Paquette
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0300245270
Book Description
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to examine their development, from efficacious forms of governance to coercive violence. Beginning with a narrative overview of imperial expansion that incorporates recent critiques of older scholarly approaches, Paquette then analyzes the significance of these empires, including their political, economic, and social consequences and legacies. He makes the multifaceted history of Europe’s globe-spanning empires in this crucial period accessible to new readers.
The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
Author : Pieter C. Emmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1108428371
Book Description
This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.
Empires of the Sea
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004407677
Book Description
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
Visions of the Sea
Author : Margarita Russell
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Marine painters
ISBN : 9789004069381
Book Description
Illicit Riches
Author : Wim Klooster
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN :
Book Description
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters
Author : Robert Parthesius
Publisher : Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789053565179
Book Description
The end of the 16th century saw Dutch expansion in Asia, as The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) was fast becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world had ever seen. This landmark study looks at perhaps the most important tool in the Company' trading - its ships. In order to reconstruct the complete shipping activities of the VOC, the author created a unique database of the ships' movements, including frigates and other, hitherto ingored, smaller vessels. Parthesius's research into the routes and the types of ships in the service of the VOC proves that it was precisely the wide range of types and sizes of vessels that gave the Company the ability to sail - and continue its profitable trade - the year round. Furthermore, it appears that the VOC commanded at least twice the number of ships than earlier historians have ascertained. Combining the best of maritime and social history, this book will change our understanding of the commercial dynamics of the most successful economic organization of the period.
Empire of the Winds
Author : Philip Bowring
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1786725193
Book Description
Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019 Nusantaria – often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' – is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly wider world but one with a single linguistic, cultural and trading base. Nusantaria encompasses the lands and shores created by the melting of the ice following the last Ice Age. These have long been primarily the domain of the Austronesian-speaking peoples and their seafaring traditions. The surrounding waters have always been uniquely important as a corridor connecting East Asia to India, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. In this book, Philip Bowring provides a history of the world's largest and most important archipelago and its adjacent coasts. He tells the story of the peoples and lands located at this crucial maritime and cultural crossroads, from its birth following the last Ice Age to today.
Illicit Riches
Author : Wim Klooster
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9789067181235
Book Description
This book aims to revise the history of Dutch world trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While studies of Dutch economic expansion tend to focus on the East India Company and its Asian empire, activities in the Atlantic have been neglected. Consequently, their importance has been seriously underestimated. By examining the transit trade in the Caribbean, this thorough and original study presents an alternative view of the Dutch seaborne empire, facing east as well as west.
