The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks

Jong, Jan de; Huigen, Siegfried; Kolfin, E.E.P.

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004186590.i-448

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“…Castile and Portugal divided a significant portion of the continent [2], while the Netherlands, France, and England made incursions to occupy strategic positions in the territory to exploit raw materials and control trade routes. In the context of the "Eighty Years' War" between the Netherlands and the Spanish Empire, also known as the War of Flanders (1568-1648), Flanders had expanded institutionally, politically, militarily, and economically across the world through the East and West India Companies [3,4]. It is important to remember that Flanders was part of the Habsburg patrimonial heritage, but that the revolt eventually led to the Act of Abjuration in 1581 by the Prince of Orange.…”

Section: A War Between Spain and Netherlands In Chilean Landsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transimperial Eyes: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Colonial Narratives about the Dutch Expedition to Southern Chile (1643)

Sambolín Santiago,

Romero-Toledo,

Gloël

2023

Heritage

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The review of historical archives that allow us to know the observations and experiences of those who recorded scarcely explored territories in the past, especially in the context of European colonization of vast areas of the world in the seventeenth century is crucial for heritage studies. The following article analyzes how the Dutch expedition to southern Chile during the 17th century (1642–1643) was narrated, both in Dutch and in its translations into German, English, and Spanish, considering the interests of empires and the discursive differences that translational variations reveal. This transdisciplinary analysis, combining historiography, translation studies, and historical geography, consists of a critical reading of the original narration and a comparative reading of the aforementioned translations, and within them ethnographic representations made about the Mapuche-Huilliche people and the city of Valdivia and changes introduced by different translations are identified. These changes are then related to imperial contexts and discourses that shape these translations. In terms of our findings, we note that, in general, Chilean translations tend to exaggerate the representations of indigenous people as barbaric, inferior, and uncivilized. These representations are present in the European versions, but the shifts that we identified indicate an intensification of this discourse.

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Section: A War Between Spain and Netherlands In Chilean Landsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transimperial Eyes: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Colonial Narratives about the Dutch Expedition to Southern Chile (1643)

Sambolín Santiago,

Romero-Toledo,

Gloël

2023

Heritage

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“…In contrast to the cloistered Japanese Shogunate, Dejima was connected to an intricate worldwide network through the VOC. 20 Although primarily a financial venture, the VOC offered a path for European naturalists and scholars to carry out research at different Dutch "factories" across the world, and relay their discoveries back to Europe. 21 This represented a knowledge network, reconstituting a framework that had once existed under the Jesuits and which had been destroyed by the Sakoku edicts.…”

Section: Sakoku and The Dutch Monopolymentioning

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“…20 Although primarily a financial venture, the VOC offered a path for European naturalists and scholars to carry out research at different Dutch "factories" across the world, and relay their discoveries back to Europe. 21 This represented a knowledge network, reconstituting a framework that had once existed under the Jesuits and which had been destroyed by the Sakoku edicts. Dejima, with its unique vantage point into Japan, offered a new but controlled source of information for European scholars, albeit one that was more restricted than that established by the Jesuits prior to the Sakoku edicts.…”

Section: Sakoku and The Dutch Monopolymentioning

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“…Having lost a substantial number of its ships in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784), the British had crippled the VOC's maritime capabilities. 57 In 1795, the Netherlands became a client state to France's new revolutionary government aligning itself against Britain and Russia. 58 The British, who had greatly expanded their empire eastwards, took advantage of the conflict to seize the Dutch East Indies.…”

Section: Dutch Control Of Dejima During the Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)mentioning

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Bypassing the Dutch Monopoly of Relations with Japan: Vasily Golovnin’s Captivity (1811-1813)

Gidney

2021

Terrae Incognitae

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The turn of the nineteenth century saw an increasing encroachment of Russian explorations into and around isolationist Japan, culminating with the capture and imprisonment of Russian naval captain Vasily Golovnin in 1811. These Russian attempts to "open" Japan were a threat to the established contact between Japan and Europe through the Dutch base in Dejima at Nagasaki, which gave the Dutch a monopoly on relations and the transfer of knowledge between Japan and Europe. However, Russia's imperial designs in the North Pacific and the Napoleonic wars, which reduced Dutch power, threatened this monopoly, offering new perspectives on Japan and throwing political relations with the Japanese Shogunate (Bakufu) into turmoil. This paper compares Dutch and Russian approaches to contact with Japan at the turn of the nineteenth century and examines how actions such as Golovnin's imprisonment foreshadowed an end for Japanese isolationism and the Dutch monopoly on contact with the Shogunate.

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“…While the Republic of Letters as an organizing concept -under the ethos of disinterested scholarly research -may have united scholars across centuries, it did not result in longterm, structured, tightly-knit collaborations around a commonly shared goal. While early modern globalization might have resulted in multi-generational trading networks that survived for centuries, such as the Dutch or the English East India Companies, these institutions did not foster focused scientific research on a particular problem for long decades, with the potential exception of navigational science (Huigen et al, 2010). They only facilitated the circulation of knowledge through weak ties and across geopolitical boundaries, without formulating a coherent long-term science policy (Harris, 1996;Lux and Cook, 1998).…”

Section: Early Modern Networkmentioning

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A long history of breakdowns: A historiographical review

Margócsy

2017

Soc Stud Sci

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The introduction to this special issue argues that network breakdowns play an important and unacknowledged role in the shaping and emergence of scientific knowledge. It focuses on transnational scientific networks from the early modern Republic of Letters to 21st-century globalized science. It attempts to unite the disparate historiography of the early modern Republic of Letters, the literature on 20th-century globalization, and the scholarship on Actor-Network Theory. We can perceive two, seemingly contradictory, changes to scientific networks over the past four hundred years. At the level of individuals, networks have become increasing fragile, as developments in communication and transportation technologies, and the emergence of regimes of standardization and instrumentation, have made it easier both to create new constellations of people and materials, and to replace and rearrange them. But at the level of institutions, collaborations have become much more extensive and long-lived, with single projects routinely outlasting even the arc of a full scientific career. In the modern world, the strength of institutions and macro-networks often relies on ideological regimes of standardization and instrumentation that can flexibly replace elements and individuals at will.

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The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks

Cited by 69 publications

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Transimperial Eyes: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Colonial Narratives about the Dutch Expedition to Southern Chile (1643)

Transimperial Eyes: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Colonial Narratives about the Dutch Expedition to Southern Chile (1643)

Bypassing the Dutch Monopoly of Relations with Japan: Vasily Golovnin’s Captivity (1811-1813)

A long history of breakdowns: A historiographical review

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