Courses on the Dutch 카지노 게임 컬렉션˜Golden Age카지노 게임 컬렉션™ are known to celebrate the cultural, intellectual, and economic prosperous landscape that brought about the renowned paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, or Hals, the Republic카지노 게임 컬렉션™s vast trade empire and the VOC, the rich merchant houses along the Amsterdam canals, Delftware, and the great intellectual achievements of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic thinkers카지노 게임 컬렉션¯카지노 게임 컬렉션“ i.e. Grotius, Huygens, and Spinoza. The Dutch Golden Age has often been depicted in a romanticized light. The 카지노 게임 컬렉션˜Golden Age카지노 게임 컬렉션™, both the phrase and the historical period it describes, became entrenched in Dutch memory, it is a cornerstone of Dutch national identity.카지노 게임 컬렉션¯Still today, many people in the Netherlands pride themselves on their glorious, enterprising history. This course will add to and diverge from this rosy narrative.
The beginning of this course will focus on how the global impacted the local 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ i.e., the global connections that contributed to the Dutch 카지노 게임 컬렉션˜Golden Age카지노 게임 컬렉션™, recognizing that the Dutch prosperity, strength, and creative energy were highly dependent on foreign imports and international networks at the time. Since there has long been a tendency to disconnect the history of Dutch imperialism and colonialism from the history of the Dutch Golden Age, the second half of the course will explore how the local impacted the global 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ i,e., the larger global implications of the Dutch Republic카지노 게임 컬렉션™s success at this time. This course will put forth the story of the카지노 게임 컬렉션¯violent colonial enterprise that brought about the slave trade and human suffering, stressing the fact that the Dutch Golden Age was not so golden for everyone involved. It seeks to emphasize the paradoxes and silences in the historiography of the young Dutch Republic.
