Dutch Republic |
In 1616 the Dutch acquired Demerara and Essequibo (present-day Guyana) which was lost to
Britain in 1803. The W.I.C. was established in 1621.
In 1625 it took possession of Nieue Nederland (New Netherlands, lost to England 1664), in 1630 of North-eastern
Brazil (lost in 1654/1661). The W.I.C. also held possessions in Africa.
In 1630 the W.I.C. took possession of part of Sint Maarten, in 1632 of Sint Eustatius and
Saba, 1634 of Curaçao, Aruba and
Bonaire. It also temporarily held Tobago (1628-1637, 1654-1677) and part of the Virgin Islands.
In 1667 The Sociëteit van Suriname (Society of Suriname; W.I.C. shareholder) took possession of Suriname. 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; administrated as Suriname
and Curaçao (i.e. the Netherlands Antilles). |
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WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNAL FILES |
Country Profiles | Modern |
Article : Dutch West India Company, from Wikipedia;
from Wikipedia Dutch edition The Dutch West India Company, by Marco Ramerini Articles : West Indische Compagnie (de eerste, 1600-1674), from Anda Suriname, in Dutch |
Historical |
Voortganck van de West-Indische Compagnie, 1623, in Dutch, GB S. Ampzing, West-Indische triumph-basuyne, 1629, in Dutch, GB |
Links |
Category : Dutch West India Company, from Wikipedia Categorie : West Indische Compagnie, from Wikipedia Dutch Edition |
Organizations |
Association of Caribbean Historians Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen NICIS Instituut Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV, Leiden) Centraal Bureau voor Generalogie Caribbean Contacts, from Caribbean Database of Documentary Heritage MOWIC, Foundation for Exploration and Conservation of Monuments of the Dutch West India Company |
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 |
Portals |
Anda Suriname, in Dutch |
Timelines |
Carib Seek : Curaçao Timeline |
Accounts of History | Modern |
Historical | A.P. Fortanier, Geschiedenis van het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling der Nederlandsche koloniën, 1869, in Dutch,. GB; on West-Indische Compagnie pp.47-64 |
Specific Periods |
Administration |
Military |
L. van Aitzema, Historie of Verhael van saken van staet en oorlogh, in, ende ontrent de Vereenigde Nederlanden .. 1661-1664,
1665, in Dutch, GB |
Economy & Finances |
Social History |
Slavernij in Curaçao Slavenreis, from Ninsee, in Dutch |
by Region |
F.I.R. da Silva, The Dutch and the Portuguese in West Africa : Empire Building and Atlantic System (1580-1674), 2009,
thesis Leiden |
Biographies |
Others |
WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
Documents | Historical Newspapers |
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library |
Historical Yearbooks |
Nederlandsche Jaerboeken inhoudende een verhaal van de merkwaerdigste geschiedenissen die voorgevallen zyn, binnen den omtrek der Vereenigde Provintien
1747 pt.1, 1748,
1747 pt.2, 1748,
1747 pt.2.2, 1748,
vol.4, 1750,
vol.5, 1751,
vol.5.2, 1751,
vol.6, 1752,
vol.6.2, 1752,
vol.7, 1753,
vol.7.2, 1753,
more volumes here, in Dutch, GB |
Image Databanks |
Wikimedia Commons Beeldbank Nationaal Archief |
Archival Deposits |
Search ARCHIEVEN.NL combined search engine for many archives;
Archief.NL, Dutch language site providing links to individual archives Het Netionaal Archief : Archives of the West-Indische Compagnie (WIC); Inventaris van het archief van de Oude West-Indische Compagnie (Oude WIC), 1621-1674 (1711), Inventaris van de archieven van Curaçao, Bonaire en Aruba, 1707-1828 (1859), Inventaris van de archieven van Curacao, Bonaire en Aruba, (1771) 1828-1845 (1914) |
Constitutions, Laws |
Treaties |
Document Collections |
Search : Wikisource, French edition,
English edition,
Dutch edition Secrete Resolutien van de Edele Groot Mog. Heeren Staten van Holland en Westvriesland, vol.1, 1717, vol.2, 1717, GB Verbael gehouden door de Heeren H. van Beverningk ... als Gedeputeerden en Extraordinaris Ambassadeurs van de Heeren Staeten Generael der Vereenigde Nederlanden aan de Republyck van Engeland .. 1725, in Dutch, GB J. de Witt, Brieven: deel. Negociatien van de Heeren W. Boreel en C. van Beuningen, 1723, in Dutch, GB Charter of the Dutch West India Company, 1621, from Avalon Project |
Historical Maps |
Search Koninklijk Instituutvoor de Tropen, Nederlandse Koloniaale Kaarten Atlas of Mutual Heritage |
Historical Encyclopedia Entries |
Secular |
Economic |
Geographical |
Curaçao, pp.91-93 in The Present State of the West Indies, 1778, GB |
Historical |
Westindische Compagnie, pp.151-183 in vol.2 of Elie Luzac, Betrachtungen über den Ursprung des Handels,
1789, in German, GB Bonaire, Curacao, Aruba, pp.137-138 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 Dutch West Indies : Curassou, pp.328-329 in vol.4 of W. Winterbotham, An historical, geographical, commercial and philosophical view of the American United States and the European Settlements in America and the West Indies, 1795, GB |
Tour Guides, Travelogues |
Residence Memoirs |
Institutions | Archives, Musea, Libraries |
Nationbaal Archief van Curaçao Musea op Curaçao, from Portaal Curaçao |
Official Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
Coins, Banknotes |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Bibliography | General |
RHS Bibliography Datenbasis Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde (Data Base on International Relations and Country Studies), (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 W.I.C. |
N.I. Visscher, G.M. Asher, A bibliographical and historical essay on the Dutch books and pamphlets on New Netherland,
1868, GB |
Online Libraries | General |
Gutenberg Library Online,
Internet Archive Persee (French search engine) Koninklijke Bibliotheek - Digitization Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL) Onread |
on the W.I.C. |
Digital Library of the Caribbean |
Online Journals | General |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
On the W.I.C. |
MOWIC e-journals 2003- 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 |
Historical Dictionaries |
Albert Gastmann, Historical Dictionary of the French and Netherlands Antilles, Metuchen NJ : Scarecrow 1978 [G] |