Zeelandia: the Failure of a Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624-1662); Paper Pres. at the Workshop on Colonial Cities of the Leiden Center for the History of European Expansion, Leiden, 17-18 April 1980
Title | Zeelandia: the Failure of a Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624-1662); Paper Pres. at the Workshop on Colonial Cities of the Leiden Center for the History of European Expansion, Leiden, 17-18 April 1980 PDF eBook |
Author | J. L. Oosterhoff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1980 |
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Zeelandia: the Failure of a Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624-1662).
Title | Zeelandia: the Failure of a Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624-1662). PDF eBook |
Author | J. L. Oosterhoff |
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Pages | |
Release | 19?? |
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Reappraisals in Overseas History
Title | Reappraisals in Overseas History PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Alan Bayly |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1979-10-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Colonial Cities
Title | Colonial Cities PDF eBook |
Author | R.J. Ross |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9400961197 |
by ROBERT ROSS and GERARD J. TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. The Europeans who founded empires outside their own continent were primarily concerned with extracting those products which they could not acquire within Europe. These goods were largely agricultural, and grown most often in a climate not found within Europe. Even when, as in India before 1800, the major exports were manufactures, in general they were still made in the countryside rather than in the great cities. It was only on rare occasion when great mineral wealth was discovered that giant metropolises grew up around the site of extraction. Since their location was deter mined by geology, not economics, they might be in the most inaccessible and in convenient areas, but they too would draw labour off from the agricultural pursuits of the colony as a whole. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction. Nevertheless, the colonists could not do without cities. The requirements of colonisation demanded many unequivocally urban functions. Pre-eminent among these was of course the need for a port, to allow the export of colonial wares and the import of goods from Europe, or from other parts of the non-European world, in the country-trade as it was known around India.
Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage
Title | Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Geert Oostindie |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004253882 |
Migration flows in the former Dutch colonial orbit created an intricate web connecting the Netherlands to Africa, Asia and the Americas; Africa to the Americas and to Asia; in the nineteenth century Asia to the Americas, with, in the post-Second World War period, the direction of migration shifting to the Netherlands. Some of these migrations were voluntary, others were forced; they helped to create colonial societies that were never typically Dutch, but did have Dutch characteristics. Power imbalance, ethnic differences and creolization characterized the cultural configuration of these colonial societies. This book, with contributions by a number of Dutch scholars, provides state-of-the-art discussions on these migration histories. In addition, it presents reflections on the ways this past and its repercussions are remembered (or forgotten, or actively silenced) throughout the former colonial empire. This part of the book is embedded in the wider contemporary debate about the contested concept of cultural heritage, and about the possibility of meaningful cultural heritage policies in a post-colonial world.
Sguardi Globali. Mappe Olandesi, Spagnole E Portoghesi Nelle Collezioni Del Granduca Cosimo III De' Medici. Catalogo Della Mostra (Firenze, 6 Novembre 2019-29 Maggio 2020). Ediz. Inglese
Title | Sguardi Globali. Mappe Olandesi, Spagnole E Portoghesi Nelle Collezioni Del Granduca Cosimo III De' Medici. Catalogo Della Mostra (Firenze, 6 Novembre 2019-29 Maggio 2020). Ediz. Inglese PDF eBook |
Author | Angelo Cattaneo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9788874614783 |
History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (1647-2015)
Title | History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (1647-2015) PDF eBook |
Author | William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi |
Publisher | Soyinfo Center |
Pages | 981 |
Release | 2015-08-17 |
Genre | Soybean |
ISBN | 1928914799 |
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 168 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.