Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders (Atlantic World: Europe, Africa and the Americas)

Introduction / Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman -- SECTION I. CARIBBEAN ENCOUNTERS -- Curaçao as a transit center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies / Wim Klooster -- Paramaribo as Dutch and Atlantic nodal point,1540-1795 / Karwan Fatah-Black -- Anglo-Dutch trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, 1621-1733 / Christian Koot -- SECTION II. EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS -- The French Atlantic and the Dutch, late 17th-late 18th century / Silvia Marzagalli -- Anglo-Dutch economic relations in the Atlantic world, 1688-1783 / Kenneth Morgan -- A network-based merchant empire : Dutch trade in the Hispanic Atlantic (1680-1740) / Ana Crespo Solana -- A public and private Dutch West India interest / Henk den Heijer -- SECTION III. INTELLECTUAL AND INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS -- Adultery here and there : crossing sexual boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic / Aviva Ben-Ur and Jessica V. Roitman -- The scholarly Atlantic : circuits of knowledge between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Americas in the eighteenth century / Karel Davids -- The Dutch "Atlantic" and the dubious case of Frans Post / Benjamin Schmidt -- SECTION IV. SHIFTING ENCOUNTERS -- The eighteenth-century Danish, Dutch and Swedish free ports in the northeastern Caribbean : continuity and change / Hanjordaan and Victor Wilson -- Dutch Atlantic decline during the "Age of Revolutions" / Gert Oostindie -- SECTION V. PERSPECTIVES ON THE DUTCH ATLANTIC -- The rise and decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600-1800 / Pieter C. Emmer -- Conclusion : Dutch moment in Atlantic historiography / Alison Games. Introduction / Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman -- SECTION 1. CARIBBEAN ENCOUNTERS -- Curaçao as a transit center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies / Wim Klooster -- Paramaribo as Dutch and Atlantic nodal point,1640-1795 / Karwan Fatah-Black -- Anglo-Dutch trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, 1621-1733 / Christian Koot -- SECTION 2. EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS -- The French Atlantic and the Dutch, late seventeenth-late eighteenth century / Silvia Marzagalli -- Anglo-Dutch economic relations in the Atlantic world, 1688-1783 / Kenneth Morgan -- A network-based merchant empire : Dutch trade in the Hispanic Atlantic (1680-1740) / Ana Crespo Solana -- A public and private Dutch West India interest / Henk den Heijer -- SECTION 3. INTELLECTUAL AND INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS -- Adultery here and there : crossing sexual boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic / Aviva Ben-Ur and Jessica V. Roitman -- The scholarly Atlantic : circuits of knowledge between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Americas in the eighteenth century / Karel Davids -- The Dutch" "Atlantic" and the dubious case of Frans Post / Benjamin Schmidt -- SECTION 4. SHIFTING ENCOUNTERS -- The eighteenth-century Danish, Dutch and Swedish free ports in the northeastern Caribbean : continuity and change / Han Jordaan and Victor Wilson -- Dutch Atlantic decline during "The Age of Revolutions" / Gert Oostindie -- SECTION 5. PERSPECTIVES ON THE DUTCH ATLANTIC -- The rise and decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600-1800 / Pieter C. Emmer -- Conclusion : Dutch moment in Atlantic historiography / Alison Games Dutch Atlantic Connections focuses on the Dutch dimension of the integrated Atlantic World between 1680 and 1800. In recent years, it has increasingly become clear that Dutch activities in this Atlantic world were of far greater significance than historians hitherto assumed. This volume illustrates how Dutch networks functioned in the Atlantic and highlights the pivotal and, indeed, exceptional role of the Dutch in the Atlantic. The chapters present the economic function of the Dutch as middlemen and brokers who helped the Atlantic system operate by embedding themselves in the networks of other empires. This book also demonstrates the cultural impact of the Dutch in the Atlantic and of the Atlantic on the Dutch. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the Atlantic sytem by highlighting both economic and cultural contributions to the Atlantic world.