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5 - New Holland and New Netherland

from Part II - The Atlantic World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2020

Pieter C. Emmer  and
Jos J.L. Gommans
Pieter C. Emmer
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Jos J.L. Gommans
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
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Summary

In South America, the Dutch managed to conquer part of Portuguese Brazil and in North America the Dutch settled the area along the Hudson River. This chapter discusses the establishment and the demise of these two colonies in the context of fierce imperial competition and difficult exchanges with the indigenous populations. In both cases, tensions with the administrators in the Dutch Republic were unavoidable. The regional interests of the cosmopolitan court of the Orange prince Johan Maurits in New Holland (Brazil) and a true settlement colony in New Netherland (later New York) clashed with the commercial objectives of the West India Company.

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BrazilNew AmsterdamMigrationColonial SettlementInteraction with Amerindian Peoples.
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The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 , pp. 184 - 211
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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