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This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC 3.0) License.1 Han Jordaan and Victor Wilson, in this volume; Henk den Heijer, in this volume. Conclusion A Dutch Moment in Atlantic Historiography Alison GamesOne of the foremost contributions of this collection is to bring together recent scholarship on the Dutch in the Atlantic world in an English-language volume for an international audience. The collection showcases varied approaches to the Dutch Atlantic. The essays investigate an impressive breadth of topics, with an emphasis on trade and commerce but also attentive to such themes as religious practices, domestic relations, slavery, circuits of knowledge, culture, and politics. The authors explore a wide range of connections, including transatlantic religious ties, migration, administrative appointments and patronage networks, commercial links of all sorts, and ties between Dutch settlements and other European colonies and ports. Some of those connections linked trading posts and colonies to the Netherlands, while others fostered ties within regions, to neighbors, or to important trading partners in more remote locales. These essays identify important similarities to other European outposts, as in the case of the free ports of Statia, St. Barthélemy, and St. Vincent, and also intriguing differences: there was, for example, a Dutch West India interest, as there was an English one, although the Dutch coalition looked different in ways that suited "the particularistic nature of the Dutch Republic."1 For those unable to read Dutch-language sources, this volume is a boon. It makes it possible for nonspecialists to deepen their understanding of different aspects of Atlantic history in general and the Dutch Atlantic in particular. Aside from assertions that the Dutch were important in the seventeenth century, many Atlantic historians really do not know with certainty how or why. Moreover, some of the assumptions historians have had about their role in sugar production or the slave trade, for example, turn out to be erroneous. Take the case of the Dutch role in the English sugar boom on Barbados. The old wisdom held that the Dutch instructed the English in sugar cultivation in Barbados and fostered its development with capital and slaves. The historian Russell R. Menard's assiduous investigation into Barbados sources, however, has yielded no evidence that the Dutch provided instruction or significant capital for sugar production, although they do appear to have offered both a market for sugar in Amsterdam and vessels to carry the product. They may well have played some modest role in providing capital for the sugar boom. Menard suspects that the story of Dutch assistance was invented by English colonists games
This article offers a global perspective on the intertwined histories of English and Dutch overseas enterprises in the early seventeenth century. The English and the Dutch were close allies in Europe when they embarked on commercial and colonial ventures. This history of alliance provided crucial military training for Englishmen who served in English colonies in Virginia, New England, and the Caribbean. The English and the Dutch were also rivals, especially in the commercial competition for spices in the East Indies. Competition and cooperation in Japan and the Spice Islands culminated in the “massacre” at Amboyna in 1623. This history of enmity and amity shaped later English and Dutch interactions in North and South America (including New England and New Netherland), affected European diplomacy, and helped spark three Anglo-Dutch wars.
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