The Dutch Diaspora
Subtitle: The Netherlands and Its Settlements in Africa, Asia, and the Americas
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: September 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780739121054
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Colonies And Colonization; Europe - History +; History; History - General History; History: World; Emigration & Immigration; Western Europe - Benelux; World - Colonial Studies; History / World; Western Europe - General; Colonies; Dutch; Foreign countries; Netherlands
Description: "The Dutch Diaspora is a comprehensive and personal study of the Netherlands and its former colonial empire. The Netherlands is considered one of the most successful societies in the world, and at one point was the globe's largest empire - stretching from Japan to the United States. The author, Howard J. Wiarda, having grown up in western Michigan, is himself of Dutch descent, and he combines thorough scholarship with firsthand experience of travels to the Netherlands and its far-flung former colonies. The study analyzes how colonies reacted to the institutional and ideological beliefs implanted by the Dutch settlers, and how those colonies evolved in terms of cultural, religious, and political beliefs."--BOOK JACKET.