Sint Eustatius | Sint Maarten |
In 1632 the W.I.C. took possession of Saba. The first W.I.C. went bankrupt in 1674 to be replaced by the G.W.I.C. (second W.I.C.) which was dissolved in 1792,
and her assets fell to the Dutch Republic.
From 1815 to 1828 part of Curaçao and Dependencies, from 1828 to 1845 of the Dutch West Indies,
from 1845 to 1936 of Curaçao and Dependencies, from 1936 to 1948 of the Territory of Curaçao,
from 1948 to 2010 part of the Netherlands Antilles. Since 2010 integral part of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands. |
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WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNAL FILES |
Country Profiles | Modern |
Articles : Saba, from Wikipedia;
from Wikipedia Dutch edition |
Historical, on the Windies |
A. Trollope, The West Indies and the Spanish Main, 1860, GB |
Historical, on Saba |
St. Bartholomew, St. Eustatius and Saba, pp.303-308 in Th.E.Lynch, The Wonders of the West Indies, 1856, GB |
Links | General |
Category : Saba, from Wikipedia Categorie : Saba, from Wikipedia Dutch Edition |
on History |
Category : History of Saba, from Wikipedia The Atlantic World and the Dutch : Netherlands Antilles, Saba |
Historical Dictionaries |
Herman Daniel Benjamins, Joh. F. Snelleman, Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië (1914-1917),
in Dutch, posted on DBNL Woordenlijst : Vrij van Slavernij, from Nationaal Archief, in Dutch |
Timelines |
Carib Seek : Curaçao Timeline |
Accounts of History | Modern |
Articles : Saba : History, from Wikipedia |
Historical, of the Caribbean |
Th. Coke, A history of the West Indies,
vol.1, 1808,
vol.2, 1810,
vol.3, 1811, GB Th. Southey, Chronological history of the West Indies, vol.1, 1827, GB (out of 3 vols.) C.E. Meinecke, Versuch einer Geschichte der europaischen Colonien in Westindien, 1831, in German, GB E. Regnault et al., Histoire des Antilles et des colonies françaises, espagnoles, anglaises .., 1849, in French, GB |
Historical, on Saba |
Specific Periods |
W.Th. Hellebrand, Statia invaded from Saba, 2008 |
Politics |
Article : Saba : Bestuur, from Wikipedia Dutch edition |
Military |
Economy & Finances |
Article : Economy of Saba, from Wikipedia Article : Saba : Economie, from Wikipedia Dutch edition |
Social History |
Ethnography |
Religion |
Local History |
Institutions |
Culture |
Biographies |
Others |
Neotropic Ecoregion, from WWF |
WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
from World Statesmen by Ben Cahoon Lijst van Gouverneurs van Sint Eustatius, Saba en Sint Maarten, from Wikipedia Dutch edition Official Yearbook : Almanak voor de Nederlandsche West-Indische bezittingen, en de kust van Guinea 1859, 1858, 1860, 1859, GB |
Lists of Consuls |
Lists of Bishops |
Population Figures |
from Population Statistics (Jan Lahmeyer) |
Election Results |
Documents | Historical Newspapers |
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library |
Modern Newspapers |
Newsreels |
Archief Beeld en Geluid : Polygoon (in Dutch) Search School TV for Saba; clips in Dutch |
Radio |
Caribiana, from Radio Nederland |
Image Databanks |
Wikimedia Commons Beeldbank Nationaal Archief : Saba Search Nationale Beeldbank for Sint Eustatius |
Archival Deposits |
The Atlantic World and the Dutch : Netherlands Antilles,
Saba; guide to archive deposits Search ARCHIEVEN.NL combined search engine for many archives; Archief.NL, Dutch language site providing links to individual archives Het Netionaal Archief : Inventaris van de archieven van St. Eustatius, St. Maarten en Saba, 1709-1828 (1869), Inventaris van de archieven van St. Eustatius, St. Maarten en Saba, 1828-1845 (1860) Nationbaal Archief van Curaçao |
Constitutions, Laws |
Wet openbare lichamen Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba, 2010, from
Tweede Kamer : Dossiers, in Dutch Tweede Aanpassingswet openbare lichamen Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba, 2010, in Dutch Derde aanpassingswet openbare lichamen Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba, 2010, in Dutch |
Treaties |
Consular Reports |
Chamber of Commerce Reports |
Document Collections |
Search : Wikisource, English edition,
Dutch edition |
Historical Maps |
Search Koninklijk Instituutvoor de Tropen, Nederlandse Koloniaale Kaarten |
Historical Encyclopedia Entries |
Secular |
Dutch West India Company, from EB 1911 Article Saba, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German |
Religious |
Economic |
Saba, p.159 in vol.4 pt.1 of J.M. Demeunier,
Economie politique et diplomatique, 1788, in French, GB Dutch Possessions : St. Martins, St. Eustatius and Saba, pp.638-639 in J. Blunt, The shipmaster's assistant, and commercial digest , 1837, GB |
Geographical |
Saba, p.91 in The Present State of the West Indies, 1778, GB Saba pp.424-425 in vol.3 of C. Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, 1827, GB Saba, p.42 in G. Long, America and the West Indies: geographically described, 1845, GB |
Historical |
L'Isle de Saba, pp.54-56 in vol.22 of F.M. de Marsy et al.,
Histoire moderne des Chinois, des Japonnois, des Indiens, des Persans, des Turcs, des Russiens et des Americains, 1771,
in French, GB |
Parliamentary Debates |
Hansard (British Parliament) Staten Generaal Digitaal, 1814-1995, in Dutch |
Tour Guides, Travelogues |
Residence Memoirs |
Institutions | Archives, Musea, Libraries |
Museum Directory : Netherland Antilles, from
Caribbean Museums |
Official Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
Flag, from FOTW; Coat of Arms, from
International Civic Heraldry |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Bibliography | General |
RHS Bibliography Datenbasis Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde (Data Base on International Relations and Country Studies), keyword Mauritius (site in German, most titles listed in English; hundreds of entries; publications mostly since 1970) Nederlandse Bibliografie Online (publications since 1974); Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse Geschiedenis |
on the Caribbean |
National Archives (UK) : Caribbean Histories Revealed : Bibliography Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography Bibliography of Caribbean Archaeology, from Florida Museum of Natural History Directory of Open Access Journals, search for Netherlands Antilles Ph.H. Hiss, A selective guide to the English literature on the Netherlands West Indies, with a supplement on British Guiana, (1943), posted on Internet Archive |
Online Libraries | General |
Gutenberg Library Online,
Internet Archive Persee (French search engine) Koninklijke Bibliotheek - Digitization Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL) |
on the Caribbean |
Digital Library of the Caribbean |
Online Journals | General |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
On the Caribbean |
On the Netherlands' Antilles |
Nieuwe West Indische Gids 1919-2010 |
General Accounts |
Jan Rogozinski, A Brief History of the Caribbean (1992) London : Penguin 1994 [G] Mordechai Arbell, The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean, Jerusalem : Gefen 2002 H.P.H. Jansen, Kalendarium Geschiedenis van de Lage Landen, (Timeline of the History of the Low Countries), Utrecht 1979 (in Dutch) [G] |
Specific Topics |
Jan Lucassen, Emigration to the Dutch Colonies and the USA, pp.21-27
in : Robin Cohen, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, Cambridge : UP 1995, KMLA Lib.Sign. 304.809 C678c |
Historical Dictionaries |
Albert Gastmann, Historical Dictionary of the French and Netherlands Antilles, Metuchen NJ : Scarecrow 1978 [G] |
Yearbook Entries |