Dutch Colony In South America

The Dutch in Southward America and the Caribbean area

Christopher Ebert

Terminal MODIFIED: 27 March 2019

DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199766581-0214

Introduction

The concept of "Latin America" gained currency only in modern times, and its employ as an organizing concept for the early modern period is limited. The all-time fashion to understand the involvement of the Dutch Republic in overseas colonizing efforts is through the idea of Atlantic history. This involvement was part and parcel of the fitful consolidation of the Commonwealth in the latter decades of the 16th century, equally the "rebellious provinces" took their war with Habsburg Espana to Spanish Atlantic possessions. A more sustained set on on the Iberian Atlantic began with the chartering of the first Dutch W Bharat Visitor (WIC) in 1621. A short-lived invasion of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's colonial majuscule, was followed past a successful occupation of the rich carbohydrate-producing captaincy of Pernambuco from 1630 to 1654. Dutch New York, by mode of comparison, was a minor venture. Grand schemes for large Dutch colonies in territories claimed by the Castilian and Portuguese monarchies came to nothing, and the WIC was reorganized in 1674 with more modest ambitions. The Dutch subsequently established a vigorous presence in Suriname, Curaçao, and a handful of islands in the Lesser Antilles embracing plantation agronomics, trade, and fiscal services. This bibliography examines Dutch Atlantic world historiography with a focus on competition with the Iberian empires, especially in Brazil. It also discusses works on other Dutch outposts, which are considered collectively as a "Caribbean zone," whether mainland or island. Administered only loosely by the second WIC, these colonies became sites of vigorous interaction with all the other European Atlantic powers throughout the 18th century. Other sections list works on the Dutch in the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Dutch colonies, the history of Portuguese Jews in the Dutch Atlantic world, and published primary sources relevant to Dutch Atlantic history.

General Overviews

Histories of the Dutch Democracy (Boxer 1965, Israel 1995, and Prak 2009) set the stage for Dutch Atlantic expansion. De Vries and van der Woude 1997 is the nearly comprehensive economic history, while Antunes and Gommans 2015 decenters Dutch expansion and partly takes information technology out of an imperial framework.

Antunes, Cátia A. P., and Jos L. L. Gommans, eds. Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600–2000. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.

Cutting-edge essays that deal with Dutch empire and trade, incorporating actor/network theory and New Institutional Economics approaches.
Boxer, C. R. The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600–1800. New York: Knopf, 1965.

Overview of Dutch colonial expansion later 1600 includes both Atlantic and Indian Sea dimensions.
Cook, Harold. Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

DOI: x.12987/yale/9780300117967.001.0001

Posits, not without controversy, a central part for Dutch overseas expansion in fostering the growth of scientific cognition in the Republic.
de Vries, January, and Ad van der Woude. The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500–1815. Cambridge, Great britain: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Comprehensive overview of Dutch economic history under the Republic contains a affiliate on the Dutch Atlantic and the West India Company.
Israel, Jonathan I. Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585–1740. Oxford: Oxford Academy Press, 1989.

Somewhat dated series of essays that look at the rise of the Dutch Commonwealth equally a global trading empire, but with a useful focus on Dutch interactions with the Iberian empires.
State of israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Democracy: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Comprehensive and detailed synthesis of the history of the Dutch Republic.
Prak, Maarten Roy. The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Aureate Age. Cambridge, U.k.: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Concise merely excellent synthesis of contempo research on the early history of the Republic; also deals with overseas expansion; accessible to a nonspecialist reader.

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