This book forum focuses on Wim Klooster’s The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2016). In his book, 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. According to Klooster, the Dutch would not have been able to achieve military victories without the native alliances they carefully cultivated. Indeed, Klooster concludes, the Dutch Atlantic was quintessentially interimperial, multinational, and multiracial. At the same time, it was an empire entirely designed to benefit the United Provinces.The four reviewers – Trevor Burnard, Joyce Goodfriend, Cynthia Van Zandt, and Willem Frijhoff – all offer praise, some more profusely than others. Their reviews critically question some aspects of Klooster’s narrative, particularly in relation to slavery, the inevitability of the Dutch Atlantic empire’s decline, his assessment of the rule of Johan-Maurits van Nassau-Siegen in Dutch Brazil, the role of violence and of women in Dutch colonization, as well as the relationship between microcosmic and macrocosmic perspectives on the history of Dutch America.

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从未有过的帝国

该图书论坛的重点是 Wim Klooster 的《荷兰时刻：17 世纪大西洋世界的战争、贸易和定居点》（康奈尔大学出版社，2016 年）。在他的书中，Wim Klooster 展示了荷兰人如何建立并最终失去了一个大西洋帝国，这个帝国从联合省的家园延伸到哈德逊河，从巴西和加勒比海延伸到非洲黄金海岸。在长达数十年的与西班牙的战争中为荷兰人作战的舰队和军队包括众多外国人，其中大部分来自西北欧国家。同样，许多荷兰殖民地的定居者出生在欧洲其他地区或新世界。根据克洛斯特的说法，如果没有他们精心培育的本土联盟，荷兰人就不可能取得军事胜利。事实上，克洛斯特总结道，荷兰大西洋是典型的过渡时期、跨国和多种族地区。同时，这是一个完全为联合省利益而设计的帝国。四位评论家——Trevor Burnard、Joyce Goodfriend、Cynthia Van Zandt 和 Willem Frijhoff——都赞不绝口，有些比其他人更赞。他们的评论批判性地质疑了 Klooster 叙述的某些方面，特别是关于奴隶制、荷兰大西洋帝国衰落的必然性、他对荷兰巴西的 Johan-Maurits van Nassau-Siegen 统治的评估、暴力和妇女在荷兰殖民化，以及荷兰美洲历史的微观和宏观视角之间的关系。这是一个完全旨在造福联合省的帝国。四位评论家——Trevor Burnard、Joyce Goodfriend、Cynthia Van Zandt 和 Willem Frijhoff——都赞不绝口，有些比其他人更赞。他们的评论批判性地质疑了 Klooster 叙述的某些方面，特别是关于奴隶制、荷兰大西洋帝国衰落的必然性、他对荷兰巴西的 Johan-Maurits van Nassau-Siegen 统治的评估、暴力和妇女在荷兰殖民化，以及荷兰美洲历史的微观和宏观视角之间的关系。这是一个完全旨在造福联合省的帝国。四位评论家——Trevor Burnard、Joyce Goodfriend、Cynthia Van Zandt 和 Willem Frijhoff——都赞不绝口，有些比其他人更赞。他们的评论批判性地质疑了 Klooster 叙述的某些方面，特别是关于奴隶制、荷兰大西洋帝国衰落的必然性、他对荷兰巴西的 Johan-Maurits van Nassau-Siegen 统治的评估、暴力和妇女在荷兰殖民化，以及荷兰美洲历史的微观和宏观视角之间的关系。