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Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

Hardcover

General European HistoryNaval History

ISBN10: 1403966923
ISBN13: 9781403966926
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 15 2005
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.56
Language: English
This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading, exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Surprisingly, this story of Dutch freebooters and their depredations remains almost entirely untold until now. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality.

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