The Dutch trading companies as knowledge networks:

For more than a century, from about 1600 until the early eighteenth century, the Dutch dominated world trade. Via the Netherlands the far reaches of the world, both in the Atlantic and in the East, were connected. Dutch ships carried goods, but they also opened up opportunities for the exchange of k...

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Weitere Verfasser: Huigen, Siegfried 1959- (HerausgeberIn), Jong, Jan L. de 1956- (HerausgeberIn), Kolfin, Elmer 1969- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2010
Schriftenreihe:Intersections 14
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Zusammenfassung:For more than a century, from about 1600 until the early eighteenth century, the Dutch dominated world trade. Via the Netherlands the far reaches of the world, both in the Atlantic and in the East, were connected. Dutch ships carried goods, but they also opened up opportunities for the exchange of knowledge. The commercial networks of the Dutch trading companies provided an infrastructure which was accessible to people with a scholarly interest in the exotic world. The present collection of essays brings together a number of studies about knowledge construction that depended on the Dutch trading networks.
Beschreibung:Most of the contributions to this volume were first presented during a conference in the National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) in Leiden, The Netherlands, on October 23-24, 2008
Incl. bibliogr. references and index
Beschreibung:xxiii, 441 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9789004186590