Arthur Weststeijn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1594857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Weststeijn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Weststeijn |
| SIGNATURE | WESTSTEIJN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Empire of the Seas: Maritime Sovereignty, Authority, and Order in Early Modern Intellectual History
Reviewing recent scholarship on the early modern intellectual history of maritime empire, this article traces the impact of David Armitage's The Ideological Origins of the British Empire on the development of a transnational and comparative approach to the study of maritime sovereignty and imperial order. First, the article discusses how the intellectual origins of Britain's “empire of the seas” must be understood within a broader European and gl…
Dirk Alkemade, Radicale democratie. Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) en de Nederlandse revolutie
Empire in Fragments: Transatlantic News and Print Media in the Iberian World, ca. 1600–40
This article shows how the rise of printed news media during the opening decades of the seventeenth century fomented and fragmented authority in the polycentric Spanish Habsburg empire. Analyzing the making, dissemination, and reception of transatlantic news from Madrid to Mexico and from Lisbon to Lima, the article explores how the influx of fragments of unverifiable information from overseas undermined the possibility of complete knowledge. Whi…
Wiep van Bunge, From Bayle to the Batavian Revolution. Essays on Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic
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Colonies of Concord: Religious Escapism and Experimentation in Dutch Overseas Expansion, ca. 1650–1700
The historiography of early modern Dutch colonial expansion in the East and the West shows a rather stark division between studies on governance and trade on the one hand, and those on Christian mission on the other. This chapter explores a third field of research: the impact of cultural and religious entanglement in the context of the voyages of discovery, the creation of trade networks, and colonial enterprise. After an analysis of the legal ju…
The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600–2000
The late eighteenth-century transformation of the Dutch company-ruled trading empire into a state-ruled colonial empire was a turning point in the history of visions of the Dutch empire. 1 It coincided, although this is rarely emphasized, with the Dutch Republic's transformation of a union of seven 'United Provinces' into a centralized nation-state. In the second half of the 1790s, Dutch 'Batavian' revolutionaries abandoned the model of fragmente…
Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination
Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination, edited by Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn, approaches the early modern republican political imagination from a fresh perspective. While most scholars agree on the importance of the classical world to early modern republican theorists, its role is all too often described in rather abstract and general terms such as “classical republicanism” or the “neo-roman theory of free states”. The …
Introduction: Classical Republicanism and Ancient Republican Models
Mark Somos, Secularisation and the Leiden Circle
Dutch Brazil and the Making of Free Trade Ideology
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The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the history of Latin America, which leads to a view o…
The VOC as a Company-State: Debating Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion
What was seventeenth-century Dutch expansion in Southeast Asia all about? In the traditional historiography, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was predominantly presented as a multinational corporation and non-state colonial actor. Recent research, however, has significantly challenged this view, stressing instead the imperial aspects of VOC rule. This article aims to break new ground by analysing the vocabularies used in seventeenth-century rea…
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age: The Political Thought of Johan & Pieter de la Court
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers Johan (1622-1660) and Pieter de la Court (1618-1685), two successful textile entrepreneurs and radical republican theorists during the apex of Dutch primacy in world trade. This book explores the many facets of the brothers’ po…
Republican empire: Colonialism, commerce and corruption in the Dutch Golden Age
"The Power of "Pliant Stuff: Fables and Frankness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republicanism
The Power of “Pliant Stuff”: Fables and Frankness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republicanism Arthur Weststeijn In the preface to his 1609 collection of classical fables entitled De sapientia veterum (On the Wisdom of the Ancients), Francis Bacon vindicated his choice for such a playful genre. Although the writing of fables might seem just an “exercise of pleasure for my own or my reader’s recreation,” Bacon stressed that that was not the case. On…
From the passion of self-love to the virtue of self-interest: The republican morals of the brothers De la Court
The few studies on the political thought of Johan (1620–1660) and Pieter de la Court (1618–1685), next to Spinoza the two most important Dutch republicans in the second half of the seventeenth century, have primarily focused on the institutional dimensions of their republican ideology. This article approaches the brothers' thought in a different way by focusing on the moral philosophy that underlies their radical attack against arbitrary power an…
The VOC as a Company-State: Debating Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion
What was seventeenth-century Dutch expansion in Southeast Asia all about? In the traditional historiography, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was predominantly presented as a multinational corporation and non-state colonial actor. Recent research, however, has significantly challenged this view, stressing instead the imperial aspects of VOC rule. This article aims to break new ground by analysing the vocabularies used in seventeenth-century rea…
Empire in Fragments: Transatlantic News and Print Media in the Iberian World, ca. 1600–40
This article shows how the rise of printed news media during the opening decades of the seventeenth century fomented and fragmented authority in the polycentric Spanish Habsburg empire. Analyzing the making, dissemination, and reception of transatlantic news from Madrid to Mexico and from Lisbon to Lima, the article explores how the influx of fragments of unverifiable information from overseas undermined the possibility of complete knowledge. Whi…
Republican empire: Colonialism, commerce and corruption in the Dutch Golden Age
From the passion of self-love to the virtue of self-interest: The republican morals of the brothers De la Court
The few studies on the political thought of Johan (1620–1660) and Pieter de la Court (1618–1685), next to Spinoza the two most important Dutch republicans in the second half of the seventeenth century, have primarily focused on the institutional dimensions of their republican ideology. This article approaches the brothers' thought in a different way by focusing on the moral philosophy that underlies their radical attack against arbitrary power an…
"The Power of "Pliant Stuff: Fables and Frankness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republicanism
The Power of “Pliant Stuff”: Fables and Frankness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republicanism Arthur Weststeijn In the preface to his 1609 collection of classical fables entitled De sapientia veterum (On the Wisdom of the Ancients), Francis Bacon vindicated his choice for such a playful genre. Although the writing of fables might seem just an “exercise of pleasure for my own or my reader’s recreation,” Bacon stressed that that was not the case. On…
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age: The Political Thought of Johan & Pieter de la Court
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers Johan (1622-1660) and Pieter de la Court (1618-1685), two successful textile entrepreneurs and radical republican theorists during the apex of Dutch primacy in world trade. This book explores the many facets of the brothers’ po…
Republican empire: Colonialism, commerce and corruption in the Dutch Golden Age
Dutch Brazil and the Making of Free Trade Ideology
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the history of Latin America, which leads to a view o…
The VOC as a Company-State: Debating Seventeenth-Century Dutch Colonial Expansion
What was seventeenth-century Dutch expansion in Southeast Asia all about? In the traditional historiography, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was predominantly presented as a multinational corporation and non-state colonial actor. Recent research, however, has significantly challenged this view, stressing instead the imperial aspects of VOC rule. This article aims to break new ground by analysing the vocabularies used in seventeenth-century rea…
Mark Somos, Secularisation and the Leiden Circle
Introduction: Classical Republicanism and Ancient Republican Models
Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination
Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination, edited by Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn, approaches the early modern republican political imagination from a fresh perspective. While most scholars agree on the importance of the classical world to early modern republican theorists, its role is all too often described in rather abstract and general terms such as “classical republicanism” or the “neo-roman theory of free states”. The …
Colonies of Concord: Religious Escapism and Experimentation in Dutch Overseas Expansion, ca. 1650–1700
The historiography of early modern Dutch colonial expansion in the East and the West shows a rather stark division between studies on governance and trade on the one hand, and those on Christian mission on the other. This chapter explores a third field of research: the impact of cultural and religious entanglement in the context of the voyages of discovery, the creation of trade networks, and colonial enterprise. After an analysis of the legal ju…
The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600–2000
The late eighteenth-century transformation of the Dutch company-ruled trading empire into a state-ruled colonial empire was a turning point in the history of visions of the Dutch empire. 1 It coincided, although this is rarely emphasized, with the Dutch Republic's transformation of a union of seven 'United Provinces' into a centralized nation-state. In the second half of the 1790s, Dutch 'Batavian' revolutionaries abandoned the model of fragmente…
Wiep van Bunge, From Bayle to the Batavian Revolution. Essays on Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic
Er
Empire in Fragments: Transatlantic News and Print Media in the Iberian World, ca. 1600–40
This article shows how the rise of printed news media during the opening decades of the seventeenth century fomented and fragmented authority in the polycentric Spanish Habsburg empire. Analyzing the making, dissemination, and reception of transatlantic news from Madrid to Mexico and from Lisbon to Lima, the article explores how the influx of fragments of unverifiable information from overseas undermined the possibility of complete knowledge. Whi…
The Empire of the Seas: Maritime Sovereignty, Authority, and Order in Early Modern Intellectual History
Reviewing recent scholarship on the early modern intellectual history of maritime empire, this article traces the impact of David Armitage's The Ideological Origins of the British Empire on the development of a transnational and comparative approach to the study of maritime sovereignty and imperial order. First, the article discusses how the intellectual origins of Britain's “empire of the seas” must be understood within a broader European and gl…
Dirk Alkemade, Radicale democratie. Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) en de Nederlandse revolutie
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