War, colonization, and migration over five centuries / Stanley Engerman -- Maritime powers, colonial powers : the role of migration (c. 1492-1792) / Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau -- Dutch labor migration to West Africa (c. 1590-1674) / Filipa Ribeiro da Silva -- Soldiers and merchants : aspects of migration from Europe to Asia in the Dutch East India Company in the eighteenth century / Femme S. Gaastra -- New Christians, jews, and Amsterdam at the crossroads of expansion systems / Jessica Vance Roitman -- Social outcomes of trade relations : encounters between Africans and Europeans in the hubs of the slave trade on the Guinea coast / Natalie Everts -- Slavery in the De Bry Collection : the formation of a worldwide comparative perspective / Ernst van den Boogaart -- The representation of slaves and slavery in the writing of the natural history of the West Indies during the early modern centuries : French and English contributions compared / Nicholas Canny -- Abolition and identity in the very long run / David Eltis -- Divergent paths : the Anglo-American abolitions of the Atlantic slave trade / Seymour Drescher -- The transformation and downfall of plantation culture in Suriname / Ellen Klinkers -- History brought home : postcolonial migrations and the Dutch rediscovery of slavery / Gert Oostindie
Summary
The twelve essays explore three connected aspects of European expansion in the period between 1500 and 1900 - migration, trade, and slavery - with some attention given to present-day echoes from that era
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