This article examines the ways in which ideas of greatness, reason of state, and state formation were employed in the creation of the Dutch empire. It focuses, in particular, on the role of corporations, including the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or Dutch East India Company, in providing a platform for the implementation of those ideas. It then shows how the state moved to appropriate the entire domain of political thought from such corporations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while noting the revival of their political role in the twentieth century. The paper then turns to the question of the impact of this history on the present and therefore to a consideration of the methodological issues involved in that question. ...
In this article, a number of aspects of the history of Dutch colonialism are linked to developments ...
This chapter uncovers the intellectual roots of the exceptionalist narrative of the Dutch empire as ...
This chapter uncovers the intellectual roots of the exceptionalist narrative of the Dutch empire as ...
This article examines the ways in which ideas of greatness, reason of state, and state formation wer...
This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspe...
This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspe...
In response to Koekkoek, Richard and Weststeijn, this contribution argues against an ‘add-on approac...
This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspe...
In response to Koekkoek, Richard and Weststeijn, this contribution argues against an ‘add-on approac...
Do we need a long-term intellectual history of the Dutch empire? And if so, what should it be about?...
Do we need a long-term intellectual history of the Dutch empire? And if so, what should it be about?...
What were the major developments in thinking about Dutch empire from the early modern period to th...
What were the major developments in thinking about Dutch empire from the early modern period to the ...
What were the major developments in thinking about Dutch empire from the early modern period to the ...
In this article, a number of aspects of the history of Dutch colonialism are linked to developments ...
In this article, a number of aspects of the history of Dutch colonialism are linked to developments ...
This chapter uncovers the intellectual roots of the exceptionalist narrative of the Dutch empire as ...
This chapter uncovers the intellectual roots of the exceptionalist narrative of the Dutch empire as ...
This article examines the ways in which ideas of greatness, reason of state, and state formation wer...
This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspe...
This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspe...
In response to Koekkoek, Richard and Weststeijn, this contribution argues against an ‘add-on approac...
This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspe...
In response to Koekkoek, Richard and Weststeijn, this contribution argues against an ‘add-on approac...
Do we need a long-term intellectual history of the Dutch empire? And if so, what should it be about?...
Do we need a long-term intellectual history of the Dutch empire? And if so, what should it be about?...
What were the major developments in thinking about Dutch empire from the early modern period to th...
What were the major developments in thinking about Dutch empire from the early modern period to the ...
What were the major developments in thinking about Dutch empire from the early modern period to the ...
In this article, a number of aspects of the history of Dutch colonialism are linked to developments ...
In this article, a number of aspects of the history of Dutch colonialism are linked to developments ...
This chapter uncovers the intellectual roots of the exceptionalist narrative of the Dutch empire as ...
This chapter uncovers the intellectual roots of the exceptionalist narrative of the Dutch empire as ...