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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Dutch Empire"”.
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Germans in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1806
… migrants from the German lands as integral to Dutch imperial ventures of the early modern era, and questions to what extent the European dimension of Dutch colonialism was Dutch in composition and character. German labour underpinned the operation, governance and expansion of the Dutch empire. …
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Fighting for the spoils : Cape burgerschap and faction disputes in Cape Town in the 1770s
… the Cape settlement was part and parcel of the Dutch empire. The protesters emphasised that their burgerschap was on par with that in cities in the Dutch Republic. The first part of the thesis compares Cape and Dutch burgerschap and argues that the Cape burghers were justified in stating that …
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The Anglo-Dutch Imperial Meridian in the Indian Ocean World, 1795-1820
What happened when the Dutch and British empires overlapped across the Indian Ocean in the late eighteenth century? Histories of these empires generally focus on their early modern rivalry through patterns of war and trade that subsided after Britain’s invasion of Dutch colonies during the French …