The Dutch trading companies as knowledge networks
By: edited by Siegfried Huigen, Jan L. de Jong and Elmer Kolfin
Series: Intersections -- v. 14; Intersections (Boston, Mass.) -- v. 14.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9789004186590
Subjects: Sociology of Knowledge; History; International travel; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie; West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands)
Description: "For more than a century, from about 1600 until the early eighteenth century, the Dutch dominated world trade. Via the Netherlands the far reaches of the world, both in the Atlantic and in the East, were connected. Dutch ships carried goods, but they also opened up opportunities for the exchange of knowledge. The commercial networks of the Dutch trading companies provided an infrastructure which was accessible to people with a scholarly interest in the exotic world. The present collection of essays brings together a number of studies about knowledge construction that depended on the Dutch trading networks."--
Notes: Most of the contributions to this volume were first presented during a conference in the National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) in   Leiden, The Netherlands, on October 23-24, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.