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Colonialism and Slavery : An Alternative History of the Port City of Rotterdam / ed. by Gert Oostindie.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden : Leiden University Press, [2021]Copyright date: 2021Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789400604223
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 949.23859 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ROTTERDAM -- II ROTTERDAM’S COLONIAL CONNECTIONS SHIPPING AND TRADE, INDUSTRY AND FINANCE -- III ROTTERDAM AND TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY -- IV CIVIC GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESSMEN IN ROTTERDAM. COLONIAL CROSS-FERTILIZATION -- V MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. TRACES OF A COLONIAL PAST IN THE CITY OF ROTTERDAM -- VI COLONIAL ROTTERDAM. A HOTBED FOR DUTCH MISSIONARY WORK, 1797-1977 -- VII A NEVER-ENDING STORY. COLONIAL COLLECTIONS IN ROTTERDAM -- VIII MAKING A HOME IN ROTTERDAM. COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL MIGRANTS TO AND FROM THE CITY -- IX THE ROAD IS MINE. THE SUMMER CARNIVAL AS A CASE STUDY FOR POSTCOLONIAL ROTTERDAM -- About the Authors -- Index
Summary: Unlike most city histories, this book focuses exclusively on the city’s connections with colonialism and slavery. Rotterdam, the second-largest Dutch city, is one of Europe’s leading ports. Its maritime expansion was intrinsically linked to Dutch colonialism, including slave trading and colonial slavery in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This painful history sits uneasily with the city’s modern cosmopolitan image and its large population of ‘new Rotterdammers’ with colonial roots. The present volume provides a summary of the research that has documented this history, with chapters on the contribution of colonial trade to economic development; the city’s involvement in slavery; the role of the urban political elites; the impact on urban development and architecture; the ‘ethical impulse’; colonial art and ethnographic collections; colonial and postcolonial migration; and finally the resonance of this history in postcolonial Rotterdam.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ROTTERDAM -- II ROTTERDAM’S COLONIAL CONNECTIONS SHIPPING AND TRADE, INDUSTRY AND FINANCE -- III ROTTERDAM AND TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY -- IV CIVIC GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESSMEN IN ROTTERDAM. COLONIAL CROSS-FERTILIZATION -- V MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. TRACES OF A COLONIAL PAST IN THE CITY OF ROTTERDAM -- VI COLONIAL ROTTERDAM. A HOTBED FOR DUTCH MISSIONARY WORK, 1797-1977 -- VII A NEVER-ENDING STORY. COLONIAL COLLECTIONS IN ROTTERDAM -- VIII MAKING A HOME IN ROTTERDAM. COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL MIGRANTS TO AND FROM THE CITY -- IX THE ROAD IS MINE. THE SUMMER CARNIVAL AS A CASE STUDY FOR POSTCOLONIAL ROTTERDAM -- About the Authors -- Index

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Unlike most city histories, this book focuses exclusively on the city’s connections with colonialism and slavery. Rotterdam, the second-largest Dutch city, is one of Europe’s leading ports. Its maritime expansion was intrinsically linked to Dutch colonialism, including slave trading and colonial slavery in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This painful history sits uneasily with the city’s modern cosmopolitan image and its large population of ‘new Rotterdammers’ with colonial roots. The present volume provides a summary of the research that has documented this history, with chapters on the contribution of colonial trade to economic development; the city’s involvement in slavery; the role of the urban political elites; the impact on urban development and architecture; the ‘ethical impulse’; colonial art and ethnographic collections; colonial and postcolonial migration; and finally the resonance of this history in postcolonial Rotterdam.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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