In contrast to the Dutch position in China and British India, the Dutch on Java were able to organize labour recruitment themselves. Keywords: British India; China; Dutch empire; Dutch East Indies; indentured labour; labour migrations; slavery; Sumatra's East Coast (SEC)...
How did the Dutch colonial empire differ from the Spanish colonial empire? Ages of Imperialism Europe has experience two era of rapid overseas expansion and empire building. The first began with the discovery of the New World, and was driven by the desire to explore new lands, conve...
AN important statement on the future of the British Colonial Empire was made in the House of Commons on July 13 by Colonel Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Colonel Stanley said that the foundations of political responsibility in the Colonies must be based on the twin ...
The French had acquired an immense colonial empire and the Dutch had extended their control over Indonesia. Germany and Italy, unified only in the latter half of the century, had claimed their place under the sun. Even the tiny Kingdom of Belgium had acquired a huge colonial territory in ...
THE development of British Colonial territories is not least among the problems which are already laying claim to the funds of human energy and economic material resources which will be at our disposal during the reconstruction period. An increasingly keen discussion of Colonial policy, both in ...
How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colonial power? At the start of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as the centre of a global empire that stretched along the edges of...
Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Rus...
Germany succeeded in asserting control over substantial portions of the British Colonial Empire, chiefly through diplomatic maneuvers. In 1926, a new approach toward Russia was initiated with the controversial Vilnius Agreement, and Berlin caused international uproar by intervening more directly in the ...
As mentioned in the previous chapter, one of the consequences of the rise of the Ottoman Empire and the end of the Byzantine Empire was that traditional trade routes by land from Europe to India and China were blocked, leading to attempts to reach these areas by sea, and a period in ...
when members of the Dutch resistance in the German-occupied metropole proposed and debated the Netherlands' imperial future for the benefit of a general public seemingly willing to consider colonial reform. Seen in light of its pre-war and wartime popularity, the commonwealth's post-war appearance...