Networks of empire forced migration in the Dutch East India Company

This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early moder...

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1. Verfasser: Ward, Kerry (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2009
Schriftenreihe:Studies in comparative world history
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Networks of empire and imperial sovereignty
  • The evolution of governance and forced migration
  • Crime and punishment in Batavia, circa 1730-1750
  • The Cape cauldron : strategic site in transoceanic imperial networks
  • Company and court politics in Java : Islam and exile at the Cape
  • Forced migration and Cape colonial society
  • Disintegrating imperial networks