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Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage
Past and Present
Editor:
Migration flows in the former Dutch colonial orbit created an intricate web connecting the Netherlands to Africa, Asia and the Americas; Africa to the Americas and to Asia; in the nineteenth century Asia to the Americas, with, in the post-Second World War period, the direction of migration shifting to the Netherlands. Some of these migrations were voluntary, others were forced; they helped to create colonial societies that were never typically Dutch, but did have Dutch characteristics. Power imbalance, ethnic differences and creolization characterized the cultural configuration of these colonial societies.
This book, with contributions by a number of Dutch scholars, provides state-of-the-art discussions on these migration histories. In addition, it presents reflections on the ways this past and its repercussions are remembered (or forgotten, or actively silenced) throughout the former colonial empire. This part of the book is embedded in the wider contemporary debate about the contested concept of cultural heritage, and about the possibility of meaningful cultural heritage policies in a post-colonial world.
This book, with contributions by a number of Dutch scholars, provides state-of-the-art discussions on these migration histories. In addition, it presents reflections on the ways this past and its repercussions are remembered (or forgotten, or actively silenced) throughout the former colonial empire. This part of the book is embedded in the wider contemporary debate about the contested concept of cultural heritage, and about the possibility of meaningful cultural heritage policies in a post-colonial world.
Gert Oostindie (1955) is director of the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) and Professor of Caribbean History at Leiden University.
Gert Oostindie
Preface vii
Gert Oostindie
Migration and its legacies in the Dutch colonial world 1
Anouk Fienieg, Robert Parthesius, Brittany Groot, Rivke Jaffe, Sjoerd van der Linde and Pauline van Roosmalen
Heritage trails: International cultural heritage policies in a European perspective 23
Gert Oostindie
Historical memory and national canons 63
Gijs Kruijtzer
European migration in the Dutch sphere 97
Rik van Welie
Patterns of slave trading and slavery in the Dutch colonial world,
1596-1863 155
Thio Termorshuizen
Indentured labour in the Dutch colonial empire, 1800-1940 261
Hanneke Lommerse
Population figures 315
Index of geographical names 343
Index of personal names 351
General index 353
About the autors 359
Preface vii
Gert Oostindie
Migration and its legacies in the Dutch colonial world 1
Anouk Fienieg, Robert Parthesius, Brittany Groot, Rivke Jaffe, Sjoerd van der Linde and Pauline van Roosmalen
Heritage trails: International cultural heritage policies in a European perspective 23
Gert Oostindie
Historical memory and national canons 63
Gijs Kruijtzer
European migration in the Dutch sphere 97
Rik van Welie
Patterns of slave trading and slavery in the Dutch colonial world,
1596-1863 155
Thio Termorshuizen
Indentured labour in the Dutch colonial empire, 1800-1940 261
Hanneke Lommerse
Population figures 315
Index of geographical names 343
Index of personal names 351
General index 353
About the autors 359