Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800
Gert Oostindie
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Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800
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This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the Atlantic sytem by highlighting both economic and cultural contributions to the Atlantic world.

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Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680–1800
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Section 1: Caribbean Encounters
1 Curaçao as a Transit Center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies
2 Paramaribo as Dutch and Atlantic Nodal Point, 1640–1795
3 Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, 1621–1733
Section 2: European Encounters
4 The French Atlantic and the Dutch, Late Seventeeth-Late Eighteenth Century
5 Anglo-Dutch Economic Relations in the Atlantic World, 1688–1783
6 A Network-Based Merchant Empire: Dutch Trade in the Hispanic Atlantic (1680–1740)
7 A Public and Private Dutch West India Interest
Section 3: Intellectual and Intercultural Encounters
8 Adultery Here and There: Crossing Sexual Boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic
9 The Scholarly Atlantic: Circuits of Knowledge Between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Americas in the Eighteenth Century
10 The “Dutch” “Atlantic” and the Dubious Case of Frans Post
Section 4: Shifting Encounters
11 The Eighteenth-Century Danish, Dutch and Swedish Free Ports in the Northeastern Caribbean: Continuity and Change
12 Dutch Atlantic Decline During “The Age of Revolutions”
Section 5: Perspectives on the Dutch Atlantic
13 The Rise and Decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600–1800
14 Conclusion: The Dutch Moment in Atlantic Historiography
Bibliography
Index
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