The Dutch empire The Dutch have had many colonies. This map contains all land that has been under dutch control. This includes: The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Northern france, Small parts off germany, The Dutch Antilles, New amsterdam (New york and surounding areas), Suriname, Northen ...
In my case, eighty solar orbits on, I find myself a wizened version of the little kid I’ve always been—gobsmacked by the magnificence of nature in all of its raw power, beauty and diversity, and comforted by its nurturance of my life view of an architecture, and thus an Architect....
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 ...
Britain's territories were spread throughout the world, its territories were always on the daylight side at any given time.In that sense, the British Empire was known as "the empire on which the sun never sets" (日不落帝国), as the Sun was always shining on at least one of its ...
If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times. But her Majesty did all by halves, and by petty invasions taught the Spaniard how to defend...
[18] Its terms ensured Dutch independence from Spain, awarded some autonomy to the various German princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and granted Sweden seats on the Imperial Diet and territories controlling the mouths of the Oder, Elbe, and Weser Rivers.[19] France, however, profited most ...
1897: Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (co-author of The Threepenny Opera), born in Peckelsheim, Westphalia, German Empire (d. 1973) 1899: Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist and composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1965) 1906: Bob Howard, American singer, and pianist (Sing it Again)...
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...
Thus this quite simple category appears in its intensity historically only in the most developed conditions of society. In no way does it permeate all economic relations. For example, in the Roman Empire even at the height of its developmeat the base remained taxes in kind and deliveries in ...
The Dutch Empire: Three Centuries on Five Continents By Katherine Schulz Richard Throughout the 1620s the Dutch East India Company further colonized Indonesia's islands and the presence of Dutch plantations growing cloves and nutmeg for export grew across the region. At this time the Dutch East I...