Emerging as latecomers in the race for empire in the Americas, the Dutch created a scattered seaborne empire forged in intermittent war and created as a by-product of rebellion against Habsburg Spain. The Dutch were experienced traders and fishermen with a significant maritime tradition in the ...
The Dutch Empire, also known as the Dutch Colonial Empire, was a global network of territories and trading posts controlled by the Dutch Republic during the 17th and 18th centuries. It spanned five continents and included regions in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean. ...
A country of northwest Europe on the North Sea. Inhabited by Germanic tribes during Roman times, the region passed to the Franks (4th-8th century), the Holy Roman Empire (10th century), the dukes of Burgundy (14th-15th century), and then to the house of Habsburg. The northern part of ...
The Dutch football club NEC Nijmegen in the Netherlands wants to be at the top of the heap. But, the key to it is redevelopment of their home arena – Stadion de Goffert. The club has an ambitious project to redecorate the stadium, even if that means that the capacity of the stadium ...
John Maurice Of Nassau was a Dutch colonial governor and military commander who consolidated Dutch rule in Brazil (1636–44), thereby bringing the Dutch empire in Latin America to the peak of its power. The son of John, count of Nassau-Siegen-Dillenburg,
the law of all nations, found throughout the empire. The phrase has also been used to distinguish private law, governing the relations between individuals, from public law andcriminal law. Finally, in thephilosophy of law, civil law sometimes refers to the positive law of the state, as disti...
But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. So perhaps clandestine copulation simply follows the precautionary principle ...
The influence and power of Europe-leading Portugal had subsided by this time, and Dutch ships routinely took over Portuguese trade routes, lands, and possessions in the East Indies and elsewhere. Once peace with Spain was secure, the Netherlands continued to focus on its economic empire; and, ...
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37In general, Martine van Ittersum questions the application of the conquestpractice by the Dutch in the Americas, since the Grotian conceptualization of the“Dutch empire”would have been“maritime and mercantile”,not“territorial”38and his vision more of the kind of the“hit-and-run raids ...