Unlike most city histories, this book focuses exclusively on the city’s connections with colonialism and slavery. Rotterdam, the second-largest Dutch city, is one of Europe’s leading ports. Its maritime expansion was intrinsically linked to Dutch colonialism, including slave trading and colonial slavery in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This painful history sits uneasily with the city’s modern cosmopolitan image and its large population of ‘new Rotterdammers’ with colonial roots. The present volume provides a summary of the research that has documented this history, with chapters on the contribution of colonial trade to economic development; the city’s involvement in slavery; the role of the urban political elites; the impact on urban development and architecture; the ‘ethical impulse’; colonial art and ethnographic collections; colonial and postcolonial migration; and finally the resonance of this history in postcolonial Rotterdam.
- Cover
- Colophon
- Table of Contents
- I. Colonial and Postcolonial Rotterdam
- II. Rotterdam's Colonial Connections
- III. Rotterdam and Transatlantic Slavery
- IV. Civic Government and Businessmen in Rotterdam
- V. More than Meets the Eye
- VI. Colonial Rotterdam
- VII. A Never-Ending Story
- VIII. Making a Home in Rotterdam
- IX. The Road is Mine
- About the Authors
- Index
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