The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800

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The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800 is written by P. C. Emmer and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108647405 (ISBN 10) and 9781108647403 (ISBN 13).

"Dutch overseas expansion in the seventeenth century is a difficult phenomenon for a modern political scientist to explain. In terms of their administrative structure, the long string of Dutch settlements along the coasts of Asia, Africa and America was something between a trading diaspora and an empire. Certainly, Dutch contemporaries themselves neither regarded it as an empire, nor did they feel any sympathies for the very idea of empire. Had they not succeeded in repelling such an empire in a tremendously bloody uprising lasting a staggering eighty years? Their rebellion had been against an imperial tyrant who rode roughshod over their traditional privileges and freedoms"--