Dutch Atlantic connections, 1680-1800 : linking empires, bridging borders

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Introduction / Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman --SECTION I. CARIBBEAN ENCOUNTERS --Curaçao as a transit center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies / Wim Klooster --Paramaribo as Dutch and Atlantic nodal point,1540-1795 / Karwan Fatah-Black --Anglo-Dutch trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, 1621-1733 / Christian Koot --SECTION II. EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS --The French Atlantic and the Dutch, late 17th-late 18th century / Silvia Marzagalli --Anglo-Dutch economic relations in the Atlantic world, 1688-1783 / Kenneth Morgan --A network-based merchant empire : Dutch trade in the Hispanic Atlantic (1680-1740) / Ana Crespo Solana --A public and private Dutch West India interest / Henk den Heijer --SECTION III. INTELLECTUAL AND INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS --Adultery here and there : crossing sexual boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic / Aviva Ben-Ur and Jessica V. Roitman --The scholarly Atlantic : circuits of knowledge between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Americas in the eighteenth century / Karel Davids --The Dutch "Atlantic" and the dubious case of Frans Post / Benjamin Schmidt --SECTION IV. SHIFTING ENCOUNTERS --The eighteenth-century Danish, Dutch and Swedish free ports in the northeastern Caribbean : continuity and change / Hanjordaan and Victor Wilson --Dutch Atlantic decline during the "Age of Revolutions" / Gert Oostindie --SECTION V. PERSPECTIVES ON THE DUTCH ATLANTIC --The rise and decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600-1800 / Pieter C. Emmer --Conclusion : Dutch moment in Atlantic historiography / Alison Games.