Dutch Imperialism

Between the years 1881 and 1914, African territory was being invaded by Europeans during the New Imperialism period. Before Europe’s invasion, Africa consisted of various tribes and had no central government due to this during the mid nineteenth century. Europe attempted to colonize Africa using harsh military force and resulted in the European Scramble for Africa. The European Scramble for Africa caused African leaders to have different reactions such as some wanting to have no conflicts, but peace, surrendering to the Europeans due to fear, and also attempting to fight back against the Europeans.

The Dutch Empire was successful because it became a great trading nation and commercial capital, containing many industries that traded with multiple nations around the world.

For centuries, European nations had been trading slaves, gold, ivory, and more with the west coast of Africa. Throughout the early 1800s, Europeans barely knew anything about the rest of the country of Africa. This quickly changed as Europe grew a sudden interest in exploring the rest of the country and taking advantage of their many valuable resources. Many wonder what motivated Europeans to Imperialize Africa, or extend their country’s power throughout Africa. The driving forces behind European Imperialism in Africa were the strive for ultimate power in Africa between competing countries, the need for money and technological advancements in European civilizations, and the constant attempt for Europeans to spread their cultures throughout

This company hired an English explorer, Henry Hudson, to seek great riches.  He sailed into the Delaware Bay and New York Bay in 1609 and then ascended the Hudson River.  He filed a Dutch claim to a wooded and watered area.  The Dutch West India Company was less powerful than the Dutch East India Company, and was based in the Caribbean.  It was more interested in raiding than trading.

Looking back over the millennium now ending, one question in particular stands out: how did the inhabitants of Western Europe, a backwater in the year 1000AD, manage to gain economic and military dominance over much of the globe? Not so long ago, the answers to this question seemed obvious: Europeans were racially superior, and besides, God wanted them to win. As historians have shed race-driven and providential views of human history, new explanations have had to be formulated. Some of these new explanations are surprising; most of them conflict at some point with each other. Imperialism has been linked to multiple theories of the actual origins of the imperialistic

The Dutch were interested in gaining high capital profits from the labor and resources they extracted from Indonesia. All taxes were placed on the poor; therefore they faced impoverished conditions and famine. The Dutch brought goods, such as coffee, to the island of Java, which became one of the largest exporters of the product. Sugar, coffee, and other goods, accounted for seventy percent of Indonesian exports, and almost all the profits were taken by the Dutch. All the fertile land in Indonesia became used as Dutch plantations.

Protestantism was introduced to South Africa earlier in history than China but their encounters were accepted different ways. The Dutch East India Company’s Cape Colony in 1685 was used for trade and later became the Cape of Good Hope (Jacobsen 52). The Netherlands had supported Protestant missionaries but in 1687 there was a large influx of Protestants that helped found schools, translate the Bible, a convert a few South Africans, though generally the South Africans were reluctant to change their religion. The native people were exposed to many sects of Protestantism including Methodist, Anglican, Presbyterianism, Baptist, and others. The success of a missionary depended greatly on the “zeal of the African converts than direct actions of missionaries,

Imperialism helped the Belgians discriminate, segregate, brutally torture, and even kill the Congolese in genocidal proportions worse than the Holocaust, for economic benefit. Imperialism is what let the Belgians easily seized all control of the Congolese’ supply of ivory, rubber, and minerals for economic power and benefit. Because the Congolese did not want to be controlled the Belgians inflicted brutal control over the people, then after that they started killing them in inhumane ways. The Congolese’ also lost most of their own culture, but when the Belgians invaded their country and took over they did bring religion and education. Overall the Belgians destroyed the Congo because of their greed, and their past is still remembered today.

New imperialism was a period of colonial expansion by European powers during the late 19th century and early 20th century. It is distinguished by the continuous territorial acquisitions of Africa and Asia by European powers. These powers include Great Britain, France, Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium (Tusan, Scramble for Africa, October 23rd). There were many reasons behind this aggressive competition. To them, these newfound lands were an opportunity to expand their power and exploit further resources. To put it bluntly, economic, political, cultural, and ideological motivations all helped start the era of New Imperialism and its new form of empire.

Shortly after wresting its independence from Habsburg Spain, the Dutch Republic quickly ascended to primacy among European powers. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic had overcome the limitations of its size and available ecological resources through its innovative financial and commercial institutions and was enjoying a hundred years of commercial dominance. By all measures, the Dutch Republic was positioned to remain atop Europe for the foreseeable future, but by the end of the seventeenth century, domestic production and overseas dominance was waning. A series of global conjunctures, including several naval wars and an invasion, interrupted the Dutch Republic’s rapid economic progress long enough for Britain to usurp hegemony. Like Spain before it, the Dutch moment atop the

For my research proposal I am hoping to discuss the rise and fall of the Dutch empire in Latin America. I will primarily focus on the Dutch trade and how that afforded the Dutch empire a place among the powerhouses of European imperialism. A focal point for the geographical area of my research will be Pernambuco Brazil and the Caribbean islands. However, the Dutch place in the Latin American world will be the spotlight, especially from the end of the sixteenth century to the latter half of the 17th century. Nevertheless, the time span for my research is flexible and may be expanded much further to better fit the parameters of Dutch colonization and imperialism. While the Dutch did have territory in Latin America, much of their control and

The neoliberal policies, which South Africa has implemented after the end of the Apartheid era, has lead to increased inequality, both on the national as well as the global level. This has led many to argue that South Africa today faces a new kind of imperialism, one that is not so much based on political subordination but rather on a new type of economic subordination through a so-called "empire of capital". This idea, among others, falls under the broader theory of "economic imperialism".

The Dutch Empire’s first influence on Indonesia is on their thoughts both intellectually and horridly. According to a documentary by Kate Humble, the VOC, a Dutch owned trading organization, took a lot of the Banda Islands’, a group of islands located in the eastern side of Indonesia, land, valuables, and hope when they settled there. They murdered their chiefs and turned their land into VOC buildings. This lead them to have horrific thoughts. Humble mentioned that even mentioning VOC to the people of Banda, will flashed their minds to this horror. So, this means that the people of Indonesia still remember the Dutch’s legacy and it is not in a good way. They still remember when Jan Peiterszoon Coen invaded their island and took everything away from them. Coen destroyed

In Junior high, our history teacher taught us that my native country, Indonesia was colonized by the Dutch for 350 years. The Netherlands is one of the European countries that established its country over Indonesia to take benefits of our rich land such as spices. I was aware our land is very source full of spices, rice, sugar, coffee. The Dutch colonized us with the focus of monopoly through trading. Because of the most important source of the spices of this rich land of Indonesia, the Netherlands profits from our land with tremendous wealth.

The government 's intention was to bring military pressures on the Portuguese and Spanish (they settled Indonesia first). The Vereenigde Oost-Inndische Compagnie ships were replaced with armed fleets that intended to attack Portuguese bases. In 1605, VOC ships defeated the Portuguese and were able to gain some of the Spice Islands. The Dutch trading company was granted shipping lands of both Melaka and Sunda straights through the ruler of Jakarta in West Java. VOC didn 't realize that the ruler of modern-day Jakarta also promised trading rights to the English; the Dutch didn 't like the idea of sharing. By 1619, the VOC 's relationships with the English and Jayakartans deteriorated and the company renamed their headquarters Batavia.