The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands ...

The Dutch built their empire with corporate colonialism by establishing the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (GWC), following Britain's footsteps, which led to war between both empires.

2022年11月22日 · Under Dutch rule, Dutch colonialists brought Dutch culture and language to the region, as well as Dutch architecture and Dutch-style infrastructure. Dutch cultural influences can still be seen in the region today, from Dutch names to Dutch loanwords in various languages.

In the sixteenth century the United Provinces of the Netherlands rose from the status of a Spanish possession to a great European power. Dutch ships carried goods throughout the world for virtually every European nation, Dutch merchants and bankers made Amsterdam the economic center of Europe, and the Dutch navy was a power to be reckoned with.

As late as 1873, the Netherlands handed over its unprofitable African possessions on the Gold Coast to Great Britain. At the same time, the Dutch colonial state in the Dutch East Indies showed a marked urge toward securing colonial borders and extending its authority.

Dutch rule reached its greatest territorial extent in the early 20th century with the occupation of Western New Guinea. [5] The Dutch East Indies was one of the most valuable colonies under European rule, [6] though its profits depended on exploitative labor. [7]

Law, Colonial Systems of, Dutch Empire. Export of Dutch law to its various overseas possessions (Brazil, 1630–1654; New York, 1626–1664; and Dutch Guiana, 1627–1975) is best exemplified by experiences in the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) between 1602 and 1942. Although not the longest colonial undertaking of Dutch expansion ...

When the Dutch returned to Indonesia in 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, their main concern was to make the colony self-supporting. During the interregnum, both exports and revenue had declined sharply, despite Raffles’s hopes for his land-rent system.

Dutch Colonial Policy in the Seventeenth Century D URING the seventeenth century the Dutch had possessions in almost every continent, but their main interest was and continued to be the Malay Archipelago, now known as Indonesia.' The search for these islands, known to be the source of spices, had launched the Age of

5 天之前 · Dutch rule in Sri Lanka was implemented though the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-indische Compagnie; commonly called VOC), a trading company established in 1602 primarily to protect Dutch trade interests in the Indian Ocean. Although the VOC first controlled only the coastal lands, the Dutch gradually pushed inland, occupying ...