The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18659-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

Reihe: Intersections

For more than a century, from about 1600 until the early eighteenth century, the Dutch dominated world trade. Via the Netherlands the far reaches of the world, both in the Atlantic and in the East, were connected. Dutch ships carried goods, but they also opened up opportunities for the exchange of knowledge. The commercial networks of the Dutch trading companies provided an infrastructure which was accessible to people with a scholarly interest in the exotic world. The present collection of essays brings together a number of studies about knowledge construction that depended on the Dutch trading networks.

Contributors include: Paul Arblaster, Hans den Besten, Frans Blom, Britt Dams, Adrien Delmas, Alette Fleischer, Antje Flüchter, Michiel van Groesen, Henk de Groot, Julie Berger Hochstrasser, Grégoire Holtz, Siegfried Huigen, Elspeth Jajdelska, Maria-Theresia Leuker, Edwin van Meerkerk, Bruno Naarden, and Christina Skott.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Huigen, Siegfried

Jong, Jan L. de

Kolfin, Elmer

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Siegfried Huigen, Introduction

The Americas
Britt Dams, ‘Elias Herckmans. A poet at the borders of Dutch Brazil’
Michiel van Groesen, ‘Officers of the West India Company, their networks, and their personal memories of Dutch Brazil’
Julie Hochstrasser, ‘The butterfly effect. Embodied cognition and perceptual knowledge in Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium’
Frans Blom, ‘Picturing New Netherland and New York. Dutch-Anglo transfer of new world information’

Asia
Paul Arblaster, ‘Piracy and play: two Catholic appropriations of Nieuhof’s gezantschap’
Maria-Theresa Leuker, ‘Knowledge transfer and cultural appropriation: Georg Everhard Rumphius’s ‘D’amboinsche rariteitkamer’ (1705)’
Siegfried Huigen, ‘Antiquarian Ambonese: François Valentyn’s comparative ethnography (1724)’
Henk de Groot, ‘Engelbert Kaempfer, Imamura Gen’emon and Arai Hakuseki—
An early exchange of knowledge between Japan and the Netherlands’
Bruno Naarden, ‘Witsen’s Studies Of Inner Eurasia’

South Africa
Alette Fleischer, ‘(Ex)changing knowledge and nature at the Cape of Good Hope, circa 1652-1700’
Hans den Besten, ‘A badly harvested field: the growth of linguistic knowledge and the Dutch Cape colony until 1796’

Europe
Adrien Delmas, ‘Writing history in the age of discovery, according to La Popelinière, 16th – 17th centuries’
Grégoire Holtz, ‘The model of the VOC in early seventeenth century France (Hugo Grotius and Pierre Bergeron)’
Antje Flüchter, ‘‘Aus den fürnembsten indianischen Reisebeschreibungen zusammengezogen’. Knowledge about India in Early Modern Germany’
Christina Granroth, ‘The VOC and Swedish natural history: the transmission of scientific knowledge in the eighteenth century’
Elspeth Jajdelska, ‘Unknown unknowns; ignorance of the Indies among late seventeenth-century Scots’
Edwin van Meerkerk, ‘Colonial objects and the display of power. The curious case of the cabinet of William V and the Dutch India Companies’

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Siegfried Huigen is Associate Professor of Dutch Literature and Cultural History at the University of Stellenbosch, in South Africa. His research interests are early modern travel writing and the history of colonial science and scholarship. He is the author of De weg naar Monomotapa (1996) and Knowledge and Colonialism; Eighteenth-Century Travellers in South Africa (2007 and 2009), and (co)editor of several books on South African politics of memory and colonial discourse. He is currently researching eighteenth-century Dutch representations of the ‘East Indies’.

Jan L. de Jong did his Ph.D. at Leiden University and now teaches Italian Renaissance art at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He has published numerous articles on Italian painting and has a manuscript on papal propaganda in the Renaissance set for publication. He edited several volumes of Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture. His current research focuses on reports of visitors to Italy in the sixteenth century.

Elmer Kolfin studied art history and modern western literature at the University of Utrecht. He got his Ph.D. in art history at Leiden University and currently teaches art history at the University of Amsterdam. He publishes mainly on seventeenth century Dutch painting, prints and book illustration. He has initiated and edited a volume on political prints of the Dutch stadtholders (2007) and co-edited the exhibition catalogue Black is Beautiful. Rubens to Dumas, on the representation of blacks in Dutch art.