Overview

The volume consists of ten essays (five by British and five by Dutch scholars) based on papers originally delivered to the Fourteenth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference, 2000. The essays are arranged into five themes which take a strongly comparative approach to explore the development of the British and Dutch colonial empires in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These themes examine the nature of Anglo-Dutch relations, the culture of imperialism and perceptions of the overseas world, the role of sea power in imperial expansion, the economics of colonial expansion and the extension of the metropolitan state to the colonies. Taken together, these essays form a collection which should greatly add to the understanding of the British and Dutch colonial empires, and their relative successes and failures.

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Author:   Bob Moore ,  Henk van Nierop
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780754604921

ISBN 10:   0754604926
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   23 May 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Stephen Conway; The Anglo-Dutch Relationship 1750-1850: Sir Joseph Yorke and the waning of the Anglo-Dutch Alliance, 1747-1788, H. M. Scott; Between the devil and the deep blue sea: the logic of neutrality, Niek van Sas; Perceptions of Empire: Perceptions of the Overseas World: National identity and empire: Britain and the American colonies, 1763-1787, Glynis Ridley; Dutch debates on overseas man and his world, 1770-1820, Angelie Sens; The Role of the Navy in Anglo-Dutch Imperial Relations: Seapower and empire: cause and effect?, N.A.M. Rodger; Facing a new world: the Dutch navy goes overseas (c.1750-c.1850), Jaap R. Bruijn; Financing Imperial Trade: From supranational to national: changing patterns of investment in the British East India Company, 1750-1820, H. V. Bowen; Miracle cure for an economy in crisis? Colonial exploitation as a source of growth in the Netherlands 1815-1870, Edwin Horlings; The Imperial State: the Extension of the Metropolitan State to the Colonies: The British State overseas, 1750-1850, P. J. Marshall; Continuity and change in the Dutch position in Asia between 1750 and 1850, Jur van Goor; Index.

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Bob Moore, University of Sheffield, UK and Henk van Nierop, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Stephen Conway, H. M. Scott, Niek van Sas, Glynis Ridley, Angelie Sens, N.A.M. Rodger, Jaap R. Bruijn, H. V. Bowen, Edwin Horlings, P. J. Marshall, Jur van Goor.

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