Dynastic Colonialism
Subtitle: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781138953369
Subjects: Orange-nassau, house of; Sex role; Material culture; Power (social sciences); Netherlands, colonies; Netherlands, history; Netherlands, relations, foreign countries; Europe, foreign relations
Description: "Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism, they explore strategic behaviours undertaken on behalf of the House of Orange-Nassau, through material culture in a variety of sites of interpretation from palaces and gardens to prints and teapots, in Europe and beyond"--Provided by publisher.