Analyzes the impact of reformed Christian books on the educational philosophy of Dutch colonists in South Africa. Types of reformed books; Characteristics and general principles of a reformed educational philosophy; Role of religious beliefs in shaping educational philosophies; Importance of religious ...
By 1613, four Dutch houses had been built on the island, and by the spring of 1623, the “New Netherland” ship arrived with the first party of permanent colonists, in Manhattan. New York was originally coined New Amsterdam in the 17th century, and the term Yankee is really a phonetic ...
Suriname, northeastern South America, by Dutch colonists between the mid-1600s until its abolition in 1863. The sonic and visual references to Afro-Surinamese culture at Eurovision were welcomed, on the one hand, with amusement and admiration from international television and internet audiences praisi...
Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1623–1713. New York: New York University Press, 2011. Google Scholar Mitchell, Silvia Z. Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain. University ...
In the shameful past, whole communities were enslaved and cruelly kidnapped from their African native soil to serve Dutch and other West European colonists in the Dutch colonies for the benefit of their prosperity and the Dutch economy. Slaves were no civilians. No surnames were assigned to them...
that developed in the later years of the 17th century. This was the time when the Dutch Republic gained international primacy over world trade, with luxurious goods imported from East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Still lifes such as those by Willem Kalf and...
How did the French help the American colonists in the Continental Army? How did the Dutch East India Company make money? How did the British control Nigeria and other British colonies? How did the Dutch East India Company affect trade?
Why did the colonists name the settlement Jamestown? Why did colonization of Africa begin in the Congo? Why did Jamestown transition to a royal colony? Why did the Dutch get angry at the Navigation Acts? Why wasn't the Treaty of Tordesillas enforced? Why was the American Col...
solution that might defeat the Spain and eject her armies from Flanders. “According to the plan [that Willem Usselinckx devised], the Dutch [speaking] colonists [in America] would convert the Indians to Calvinism, arm them,….and initiate them in[to] the techniques of modern warfare.”[...
Why was subsistence farming popular in the American South? Why did Spanish colonists travel to New Spain? Why did the Magyars invade Europe? Why did South Africa leave the British Empire? Why did the Spaniards seek to conquer the Inca? Why did Francisco Pizarro explore South America? Why did...