appeared recently Genesis and Enemies of the First Dutch Colonial Empire in Asia and South Africa, 1596–1811 by professor by special designation Gerrit Knaap at Brill publishing house. In the book, Knaap examines the royal building of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
Build an empire
Knaap based his book on primary sources from the VOC. It offers an illuminating thematic examination and a chronological overview of the Dutch Republic’s overseas and colonial expansion in Asia and South Africa, especially through the VOC and its successors, the Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Franco-Dutch Java, over a given period. more than two centuries (1596-1811).
In this work, Knaap highlights and discusses several conceptual and theoretical issues relevant to the definition and implementation of overseas expansion in the early modern period.
One of the book’s major contributions is the thesis that Dutch VOC expansion in Asia was an imperial project and should be seen as an ‘imperial act’, or at least an attempt to build empire through the innovative use of highly organized and dynamic commercial institutions with political, diplomatic, military resources. great sea, and military.
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