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Auteur(s) : Noorlander, Danny LeRoi  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Heaven's wrath [Texte imprimé] : the Protestant Reformation and Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic world / Danny L. Noorlander

Publication : Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2019

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii-289 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
How did Reformed Christianity, the public faith of the Netherlands, influence the Dutch experience abroad? How did the Reformed Church and the West India Company (WIC) interact in each setting? What effect did the major religious issues and divisions of the period have on the WIC and its directors, merchants, employees, settlers, and indigenous allies? Conversely, what effect did expansion have on Dutch Calvinism? In answering these and other questions, D. L. Noorlander argues against prevailing understandings of the role of religion in the Dutch colonial enterprise, finding that the Dutch Reformed Church was integral to Dutch colonialism. The stereotype of the Dutch merchant is a man unconcerned with differences in theological doctrine and political ideology so long as business was brisk. Although this has some merit in the history of New Amsterdam, the broader colonial effort in the Atlantic and, indeed, around the globe was far more closely connected to religious institutions, doctrine, authority, and practice. So whereas the easy answer regarding the failure of the Dutch to set up a durable empire in North America supposes a causal connection between dominant commercial interest and the lack of concern for the settlements and religious missions that animated other European colonization efforts, Noorlander shows that one needs to look elsewhere for the causes of that failure. In so doing, he revises some core notions about the organization and aims of Dutch empire, the culture of the West India Company, and the very shape of Dutch society.

Sujet(s) : Colonies néerlandaises -- Influence de la Réforme protestante  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Politique commerciale -- Pays-Bas  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Calvinisme -- Pays-Bas  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
West-Indische Compagnie -- Réforme protestante  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789087283308 (rel.). - ISBN 908728330X

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb45793315t

Notice n° :  FRBNF45793315 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)