Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680–1800

Copyright

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