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...
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 ...
Noun1.British Empire- a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Aus...
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...
1972年,基于他的博士论文,帕克出版了第一本著作《佛兰德斯军队与西班牙之路。1567-1659 年低地国家战争中西班牙胜败的后勤保障》,[2]这本书试图解释为何西班牙——那个时代唯一的西方霸权(superpower)——没能成功镇压尼德兰起义(The Dutch Revolt)。五年后,帕克完成了《尼德兰起义》(The Dutch Revolt),在前言中他...
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 ...
If the Spanish empire then fell to him, it would have resurrected a domain as vast as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's in the 16th century. To the maritime powers of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, this would have been as undesirable as a Franco-Spanish union.[101] Conclusion 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...
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...