Introduction / Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. RoitmanSECTION I. CARIBBEAN ENCOUNTERS Curaçao as a transit center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies / Wim Klooster Paramaribo as Dutch and Atlantic nodal point,1540-1795 / Karwan Fatah-Black Anglo-Dutch trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, 1621-1733 / Christian Koot SECTION II. EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS ; The French Atlantic and the Dutch, late 17th-late 18th century / Silvia Marzagalli Anglo-Dutch economic relations in the Atlantic world, 1688-1783 / Kenneth Morgan A network-based merchant empire : Dutch trade in the Hispanic Atlantic (1680-1740) / Ana Crespo Solana A public and private Dutch West India interest / Henk den Heijer SECTION III. INTELLECTUAL AND INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS ; Adultery here and there : crossing sexual boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic / Aviva Ben-Ur and Jessica V. Roitman The scholarly Atlantic : circuits of knowledge between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Americas in the eighteenth century / Karel Davids The Dutch "Atlantic" and the dubious case of Frans Post / Benjamin Schmidt SECTION IV. SHIFTING ENCOUNTERS ; The eighteenth-century Danish, Dutch and Swedish free ports in the northeastern Caribbean : continuity and change / Hanjordaan and Victor Wilson Dutch Atlantic decline during the "Age of Revolutions" / Gert Oostindie SECTION V. PERSPECTIVES ON THE DUTCH ATLANTIC ; The rise and decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600-1800 / Pieter C. Emmer Conclusion : Dutch moment in Atlantic historiography / Alison Games. |