The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600-2000

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1 Introduction: Intellectual History in Imperial Practice: René Koekkoek, Anne-Isabelle Richard, Arthur Weststeijn. - Part I Exceptionalism in Visions of Dutch Empire, - 2 Birthing Empire: The States General and the Chartering of the VOC and the WIC: Cátia Antunes. - 3 Empire of Riches: Visions of Dutch Commercial Imperialism, c. 1600-1750: Arthur Weststeijn. - 4 Hyper-Imperialism: The Dutch Vision of Empire and the Expansion of the European World: Benjamin Schmidt. - 5 Comparatively Exceptional: The Paradoxes of 20
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Century Dutch Imperialism and Decolonization: Jennifer L. Foray. - Part II Visions of Dutch Empire in practice. - 6 Institutional Memory and Dutch Colonial Culture in Asia 1700-1870: An Archival Approach to the History of Ideas: Alicia Schrikker. - 7 Envisioning the Dutch Imperial Nation-State in the Age of Revolutions: René Koekkoek. - 8 Rule of Lawyers: Liberalism and Colonial Judges in nineteenth-century Java: Sanne Ravensbergen. - 9 The Glass House Revisited: Radio Broadcasting and the Blind Spots in the Late Colonial State in the Netherlands Indies, 1920s and 1930s: Vincent Kuitenbrouwer. - 10 Epilogue. Colonial distances. Dutch Intellectual Images of Global Trade and Conquest in the Colonial and Postcolonial Age: Remco Raben. -