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082 0 4 _a382.094 92
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100 1 _aKlooster, Wim,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aIllicit Riches :
_bDutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795 /
_cWim Klooster.
246 3 _aDutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c1998.
264 4 _c©1998
300 _a1 online resource (286 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCaribbean Series ;
_v18
490 1 _aEuropean History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tFront Matter -- Preliminary Material /
_rWim Klooster -- Glossary /
_rWim Klooster -- List of tables and illustrations /
_rWim Klooster -- Preface /
_rWim Klooster -- Introduction /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter I The development of Dutch trade in the Americas /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter II Outwitting the Spanish system Direct and indirect Dutch trade with Spanish America /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter III Curaçao: Amsterdam’s Caribbean counterpart /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter IV Informal foreign trade in the Spanish Caribbean /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter V Statia, Curaçao, and French and British America /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter VI Dutch slave supplies to foreign markets /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter VII The symbiosis of Curaçao and Venezuela /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter VIII Spain’s fight against contraband /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter IX Dutch transatlantic trade Imports and exports /
_rWim Klooster -- Chapter X Conclusion /
_rWim Klooster -- Back Matter -- Appendix 1 Dutch participation in the asiento slave trade /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 2 Ships with cacao, Curaçao-Netherlands, 1701-1755 /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 3 Product trade Curaçao-Netherlands, 1701-1755 /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 4 Product trade St. Eustatius-Netherlands, 1738-1790 /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 5 Exports St. Eustatius-Netherlands, 1738-1790 (in pounds) /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 6 Venezuela’s legal and illegal cacao exports, 1701-1755 (in pounds) /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 7 Tobacco exports Curaçao-Netherlands, 1701-1755 /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 8 Hide exports Curaçao-Netherlands, 1701-1755 (in pieces) /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 9 Coffee exports Curaçao-Netherlands, 1735-1755 /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 10 Specified sugar suppliers of Curaçao, 1726-1755 (in %) /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 11 Indigo exports Curaçao-Netherlands, 1701-1755 /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 12 Dyewood exports Curaçao-Netherlands, 1701-1755 /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 13 The relative weight of Dutch contraband trade /
_rWim Klooster -- Appendix 14 The forced exchange of goods, 1752-1764 (in pounds of cacao) /
_rWim Klooster -- Bibliography /
_rWim Klooster -- Index /
_rWim Klooster.
520 _aThis book aims to revise the history of Dutch world trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While studies of Dutch economic expansion tend to focus on the East India Company and its Asian empire, activities in the Atlantic have been neglected. Consequently, their importance has been seriously underestimated. By examining the transit trade in the Caribbean, this thorough and original study presents an alternative view of the Dutch seaborne empire, facing east as well as west. The Dutch transit trade in the Caribbean revolved around Curaçao and St. Eustatius, small islands that did not have much in common with other colonies in the region. Sugar and tobacco production in St. Eustatius was never a prosperous enterprise and Curaçao proved to be unsuited for the cultivation of cash crops. But enterprising merchants turned these Dutch possessions into entrepôts,local counterparts of Amsterdam, from where a wide variety of European commodities was sent to foreign colonies in exchange for tropical produce. Although outlawed by French, English, and Spanish mercantilist policies, inter-imperial commerce became a booming business, providing the Dutch in the New World with a niche which was much more profitable than historians have realized. The Caribbean contraband trade thus helped the Dutch to survive the loss in the mid-seventeenth century of most of their territorial empire in the Western hemisphere.
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCommerce.
651 0 _aNetherlands
_xCommerce
_zCaribbean Area.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tIllicit Riches : Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998.
_z9789067181235
_w(DLC) 99188868
830 0 _aCaribbean Series ;
_v18.
830 0 _aEuropean History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004652538
999 _c37340
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