Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World

by Wim Klooster

Book Overview

The author draws on a dazzling variety of archival and printed sources.... The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to the field.―Renaissance Quarterly

In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501735861
• ISBN13: 9781501735868
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher