The Dutch Moment - 9780801450457

The Dutch MomentWar, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World\nAuthor(s): Wim Klooster\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801450457, 978-0801450457\nSynopsis\nThe author draws on a dazzling variety of archival and printed sources.... The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to the field.?Renaissance Quarterly\n\n In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World. The Dutch would not have been able to achieve military victories without t.