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Wim Klooster is Professor of History at Clark University. He is the author most recently of Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History and Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795.
The Dutch Moment is indispensable for anyone working in Atlantic history, especially those unable to access Dutch-language sources. -Jaap Jacobs, University of St Andrews, author of The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America The Dutch Moment is a remarkable accomplishment. It will become the definitive work on the Dutch in the Atlantic world, and it is an exemplary work in Atlantic history. It provides a much-needed history of Dutch activities in the Atlantic in the seventeenth century, and it does so based largely on an original interpretation of primary materials in several languages, remarkable sources ranging from dictionaries to cargo lists to diaries. The writing is lively and witty, and Wim Klooster has a wonderful eye for the memorable detail. -Alison Games, Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History, Georgetown University, author of The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in the Age of Expansion, 1560-1660 The Dutch Moment offers a terrific history of the pivotal role of the Netherlands in the early modern Atlantic world. It provides in one volume both a masterful survey of the political, economic, and social history of the Dutch Atlantic and the sort of finely detailed archival nuggets that only an expert in the field can extract. A splendid narrative of empire and trade in an earlier era, The Dutch Moment is certain to become a classic in early modern Atlantic world and imperial history. -Benjamin Schmidt, author of Inventing Exoticism Expertly researched and rich in revealing anecdotes, Wim Klooster's superb book explains the spectacular rise and fall of the Dutch empire in the Atlantic world. Like no study before, The Dutch Moment demonstrates how the short-lived Dutch conquest of Portuguese Brazil contributed to the transformation of the Atlantic world in the seventeenth century. -Mark Meuwese, author of Brothers in Arms, Partners in Trade In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster provides an excellent overview of why the Dutch were more than just interimperial interlopers or outsiders residing offshore. Their calculated policy of aggression between 1620 and 1670 shaped a short-lived empire that transformed the geopolitical balance of power in the Western hemisphere; Klooster's account of those events is vital to understanding the Atlantic world more fully. -Michiel van Groesen, author of Amsterdam's Atlantic
