This book explores how the West India Company was granted a monopoly over all trade and settlement in the Western Hemisphere. It examines why a maritime republic pursued such a vigorous policy of overseas conquest, how its institutions supported this policy, and what contribution colonial expansion made to the larger project of securing Dutch independence from Habsburg Spain.
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