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Klooster (Wim) : Illicit Riches. Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795
No full textPétré-Grenouilleau Olivier. Klooster (Wim) : Illicit Riches. Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 85, n°321, 4e trimestre 1998. pp. 132-135
Klooster (Wim) : Illicit Riches. Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795
No full textPétré-Grenouilleau Olivier. Klooster (Wim) : Illicit Riches. Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 85, n°321, 4e trimestre 1998. pp. 132-135
Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815
No full textWim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680-1815), the authors argue, marked a distinct and significant era in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart a more autonomous path. The loss of Brazil and New Netherland were twin blows to Dutch imperial pretensions. Yet the Dutch Atlantic hardly faded into insignificance. Instead, the influence of the Dutch remained, as they were increasingly drawn into the imperial systems of Britain, Spain, and France. In their synthetic and comparative history, Klooster and Oostindie reveal the fragmented identity and interconnectedness of the Dutch in three Atlantic theaters: West Africa, Guiana, and the insular Caribbean. They show that the colonies and trading posts were heterogeneous in their governance, religious profiles, and ethnic compositions and were marked by creolization. Even as colonial control weakened, the imprint of Dutch political, economic, and cultural authority would mark territories around the Atlantic for decades to come. Realm between Empires is a powerful revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and provides a much-needed counterpoint to the more widely known British and French Atlantic histories
Curaçao in the Age of Revolutions, 1795-1800
Get PDFFrom 1795 through 1800, a series of revolts rocked Curaçao, a small but strategically located Dutch colony just off the South American contintent. A combination of internal and external factors produced these uprisings, in which free and enslaved islanders particiapted with various objectives. A major slave revolt in August 1795 was the opening salvo for these tumultuous five years. While this revolt is a well-known episode in Curaçaoan history, its wider Caribbean and Atlantic context is much less known. Also lacking are studies sketching a clear picture of the turbulent five years that followed. It is in these dark corners that this volume aims to shed light. The events discussed in this book fall squarely within the Age of Revolutions, the period that began with the onset of the American Revolution in 1775, was punctuated by the demise of the ancien régime in France, saw the establishment of a black state in Haiti, and witnessed the collapse of Spanish rule in mainland America. All of these revolutions seemed to converge by the late eighteenth century in Curaçao.
The seven contributions in this volume provide new insights in the nature of slave resistance in the Age of Revolutions, the remarkable flows of people and ideas in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the unique local history of Curaçao.
Wim Klooster is Associate Professor at Clark University in Worcester (MA), USA. His most recent book is Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (2009).
Gert Oostindie is Director of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Professor of History at Leiden Universit
Curaçao in the Age of Revolutions, 1795-1800
Get PDFFrom 1795 through 1800, a series of revolts rocked Curaçao, a small but strategically located Dutch colony just off the South American contintent. A combination of internal and external factors produced these uprisings, in which free and enslaved islanders particiapted with various objectives. A major slave revolt in August 1795 was the opening salvo for these tumultuous five years. While this revolt is a well-known episode in Curaçaoan history, its wider Caribbean and Atlantic context is much less known. Also lacking are studies sketching a clear picture of the turbulent five years that followed. It is in these dark corners that this volume aims to shed light. The events discussed in this book fall squarely within the Age of Revolutions, the period that began with the onset of the American Revolution in 1775, was punctuated by the demise of the ancien régime in France, saw the establishment of a black state in Haiti, and witnessed the collapse of Spanish rule in mainland America. All of these revolutions seemed to converge by the late eighteenth century in Curaçao.
The seven contributions in this volume provide new insights in the nature of slave resistance in the Age of Revolutions, the remarkable flows of people and ideas in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the unique local history of Curaçao.
Wim Klooster is Associate Professor at Clark University in Worcester (MA), USA. His most recent book is Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (2009).
Gert Oostindie is Director of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Professor of History at Leiden Universit
Tussen honger en zwaard : Nederlands Atlantische rijk in de zeventiende eeuw
No full textDat de Nederlanders in de zeventiende eeuw in Azië aan een koloniaal rijk bouwden weet iedereen. Het is veel minder bekend dat hetzelfde ook in het Atlantische gebied gebeurde. In Tussen honger en zwaard laat Wim Klooster zien dat het Atlantische imperium van de Republiek een grote verscheidenheid aan regio’s omvatte: de Afrikaanse Goudkust, eilanden in het Caribisch gebied, een lange strook langs de Noordamerikaanse oostkust en Brazilië. Dit imperium was niet alleen het werk van Nederlanders, maar kwam tot stand met behulp van Afrikanen, Inheemsen en allerlei Europeanen. De parel in de kroon van dit imperium was Brazilië, een Portugese kolonie waarvan ongeveer de helft in Nederlandse handen viel. Daardoor gingen Nederlanders zich op grote schaal bezighouden met de transatlantische slavenhandel. Tegelijkertijd stelde Nederlands Brazilië joden voor het eerst in staat om in de Nieuwe Wereld hun geloof in vrijheid te belijden. Uiteindelijk ging Brazilië voor de Nederlanders verloren, mede doordat soldaten in Nederlandse dienst, gekweld door armoede, honger en ellende, weigerden de wapens op te nemen.Vertaald [uit het Engels] door: Caroline Meijer9789400603349 (epdf); 9789400603356 (epub)Wetensch. publicati
Cocrystals of leflunomide: Design, structural and physicochemical evaluation
No full textThe use of cocrystallisation as a tool to improve the pharmaceutical profile of the low-solubility drug leflunomide, used in the treatment of arthritis, is herein evaluated. Judicious selection of coformers based upon knowledge-based strategy and crystal engineering principles has resulted in new cocrystals with pyrogallol, 3-hydroxybenzoic acid, 2-picolinic acid, and 2-aminopyrimidine. Characterisation and structure determination of these systems was performed using X-ray diffraction. Crystal structure analysis revealed that the hydrogen bonding in the crystal structures corroborate well with the knowledge-based prediction tool. Physicochemical properties such as thermal behaviour, stability, solubility, and dissolution rate of the pharmaceutically acceptable cocrystals were evaluated to assess their impact on the pharmaceutical profile of leflunomide. When compared with their parent compound leflunomide and the physical mixtures, cocrystals were found to exhibit improved physicochemical properties, showing their potential for development of new solid dosage forms
The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century
No full text© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2017. This book forum focuses on Wim Klooster's The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2016). In his book, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World. According to Klooster, the Dutch would not have been able to achieve military victories without the native alliances they carefully cultivated. Indeed, Klooster concludes, the Dutch Atlantic was quintessentially interimperial, multinational, and multiracial. At the same time, it was an empire entirely designed to benefit the United Provinces. The four reviewers -Trevor Burnard, Joyce Goodfriend, Cynthia Van Zandt, and Willem Frijhoff -All offer praise, some more profusely than others. Their reviews critically question some aspects of Klooster's narrative, particularly in relation to slavery, the inevitability of the Dutch Atlantic empire's decline, his assessment of the rule of Johan-Maurits van Nassau-Siegen in Dutch Brazil, the role of violence and of women in Dutch colonization, as well as the relationship between microcosmic and macrocosmic perspectives on the history of Dutch America
Single crystal diffraction images for a room temperature data collection on the LEF-PG co-crystal.
No full textA set of diffraction images collected on a Rigaku FRE+ diffractometer, equipped with HF Varimax confocal mirrors and an AFC12 goniometer and HG Saturn 724+ detector diffractometer. The sample is an organic co-crystal that forms part of a study of the LEF active pharmaceutical ingredient with a range of coformers. The structure with the PG coformer shows strong signs of modulation in the diffraction pattern and structure refinement. The model presented in the paper (submitted to Crystal Growth and Design) does not account for any modulation and serves the purpose of a suitable degree of characterisation precision for this article. The authors wish to make the raw data available so that those with interest and experise in handling modulated structures can perform more detailed modelling studies and/or use the data to test software or for training examples.</span
A stereoselective aza-prins reaction: rapid access to enantiopure piperidines and pipecolic acids
Get PDFThe aza-Prins reaction is a widely employed and highly efficient method for the preparation of saturated nitrogen-containing heterocycles. Its major drawback has always been a lack of diastereoselectivity and the formation of racemic products. Herein, we address these problems and report, for the first time, the synthesis of both diastereomerically and enantiopure multiply substituted piperidines via the aza-Prins reaction. This method is widely applicable for natural product synthesis and is exemplified here by the synthesis of enantiopure pipecolic acid derivatives
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