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Dutch Diaspora

The Netherlands and Its Settlements in Africa, Asia, and the Americas

Автор: Howard J. Wiarda

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Lexington Books

Наличност: Външен склад

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The Dutch Diaspora is a comprehensive and personal study of the former colonial empire of the Nether...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Howard J. Wiarda

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2007

страници

250

EAN

9780739121054

ISBN

0739121057

Enbook ID

04902841

Издател

Lexington Books

Теглоt

386

Размери

153 x 230 x 19

Пълно описание

The Dutch Diaspora is a comprehensive and personal study of the former colonial empire of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is considered one of the most successful societies and at one point was the world's largest empire_stretching from Japan to the United States. The author, Howard Wiarda, who grew up in western Michigan and is himself of Dutch descent, combines thorough scholarship with first-hand experience of travels to the far-flung former colonies. The study analyzes how colonies reacted to the ideological beliefs implanted by the Dutch settlers and how those colonies evolved in terms of cultural, religious, and political beliefs. For example, the Dutch in the seventeenth century brought Calvinism to South Africa and entrepreneurialism to New Amsterdam and Cura_ao and in the nineteenth century supported slave plantation systems in Indonesia and Suriname, but as time passed the evolution of the colonies was telling. The United States outgrew Great Britain in wealth and power, but while Calvinism declined in the Netherlands it remained vibrant and progressive in the American Midwest. In many ways, the former colonies adapted to modernization better than the mother country. The Dutch Diaspora is an insightful and accessible study of colonialism useful to upper-level undergraduates and all students and researchers of Dutch history.