What contributions did the Dutch Empire make to history? How did they stack up against other competing empires, like the French, Portuguese, Spanish, and British? Was there any way for them to hold onto Indonesia post-1945 or was the Japanese Empire the nail in the coffin?
Tl;dr can someone give me a quick rundown of how the Dutch Empire rose, thrived, and fell? They seem pretty underrated considering their contributions to the development of modern capitalism
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What do people mean when they say this? What's a "contribution to history?"
What was there significance? Did they do something other than meme about international capitalism? Could they have supplanted the influence of the British Empire? What influence did they have on the British becoming free trade capitalists?
>What influence did they have on the British becoming free trade capitalists?
The way the Dutch exploited and extracted cash crops with the Cultivation System inspired the British to try and attain that kind of efficiency in wealth-siphoning from their colonies. The Dutch received so much money from the East Indies that it paid off its national debt and financed the construction of its railways.
Why were they never able to outmeme the British? Were they actually a power by the time of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, or were they just a meme?
The Dutch are basically the cream of the eugenic crop of Europe. The Netherlands is Europe's Europe.
>Why were they never able to outmeme the British?
Depending on time period, they had about 1/10 to 1/4 the population of Britain.
>was the Japanese Empire the nail in the coffin?
No, post war US foreign policy did that.
Thank you, Netherlands
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The Dutch Indies were basically a multicultural country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It had its own capital, railway, bank, monarchs, governor, money and religions. There were churches, mosques and temples in the country. Dutch and Indian had children together. m.youtube.com
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>post war US foreign policy did that
Not really. Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. was just taking advantage of the irreparable damage done by the war. Had the U.S. not intervened in the colonial states every current post-colonial state would have been its own Vietnam.
They helped the Colonial Brazil with sugar.
Read here: en.wikipedia.org
I don't think they ever tried competing with the British in the sense of colonizing whole continents. It seems to me that all they wanted was to trade and that was basically that.
does anyone have any good book recommendations for reading on the dutch golden age?
Proto Indo European borrowed its syntax and many loanwords from Dutch. Sumerian culture has been found to have taken almost all of its ideas from Dutch farmers. The world owes the Dutch a debt we can never truly repay, try as we might.
Capitalism.
All the US did was threatening to stop sending their gibsmedat, the colony would've collapsed anyway within a few decades.
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When the Dutch tried to colonize the Hudson valley they found it very difficult to incentive getting people to immigrate there permanently. Most people who went over were only interested in fur trapping for a few years, then cashing out and returning to Amsterdam where they could live quite well off of that. Because of this New Amsterdam was little more than a large trade station to support trappers. It never had anywhere near the population growth of the British colonies which were built by people who couldn't wait to gtfo of Europe and never come back.
Generally speaking it seems the Dutch followed a similar colonial model to the Portuguese, which is to say they felt the largest empires aren't necessarily the strongest and sought to take key positions that facilitated trade routes rather than trying to claim as much land as possible. These colonies were quite profitable, but it left them quite vulnerable at home.
And where did those whites with the strange language come from?
Thanks for verifying
>Thanks for verifying
Verifying how? The Dutch were going to lose their colonies either way. The U.S. just made it less painful and on far more amicable terms.
England, mostly.