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This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the
historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. It does so in two important ways. First, it
broadens the analytical perspective to include a variety of
non-state actors beyond politicians and diplomats. Second, it
focuses on the transnational connections that shaped the foreign
relations of the Netherlands, emphasizing the effects of (post-)
colonialism and internationalism. Furthermore, this essay
collection highlights not only the key roles played by Dutch actors
on the international scene, but also serves as an important point
of comparison for the activities of their counterparts in other
small states.
This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the
historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. It does so in two important ways. First, it
broadens the analytical perspective to include a variety of
non-state actors beyond politicians and diplomats. Second, it
focuses on the transnational connections that shaped the foreign
relations of the Netherlands, emphasizing the effects of (post-)
colonialism and internationalism. Furthermore, this essay
collection highlights not only the key roles played by Dutch actors
on the international scene, but also serves as an important point
of comparison for the activities of their counterparts in other
small states.
In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in
1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community
experience a "deep, horizontal camaraderie." Despite being
strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences.
Yet while Anderson's insights have been hugely influential, they
remain abstract: it is difficult to imagine imagined communities.
How do they evolve and how is membership constructed cognitively,
socially and culturally? How do individuals and communities
contribute to group formation through the act of imagining? And
what is the glue that holds communities together? Imagining
Communities examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined
community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.
Communal bonding is analysed, offering concrete insights on where
and by whom the nation (or social group) is imagined and the role
of individuals therein. Offering eleven empirical case studies,
ranging from the premodern to the modern age, this volume looks at
and beyond the nation and includes regional as well as
transnational communities as well.
Between 1899 and 1902 the Dutch public was captivated by the war
raging in South Africa between the Boer republics and the British
Empire. Dutch popular opinion was on the side of the Boers: these
descendants of the seventeenth-century Dutch settlers were
perceived as kinsmen, the most tangible result of which was a flood
of propaganda material intended as a counterweight to the British
coverage of the war. The author creates a fascinating account of
the Dutch pro-Boer movement from its origins in the 1880s to its
persistent continuation well into the twentieth century.
Kuitenbrouwer offers fascinating insights into the rise of
organisations that tried to improve the ties between the
Netherlands and South Africa and in that capacity became important
links in the international network that distributed propaganda for
the Boers. He also demonstrates the persistence of that stereotypes
of the Boers and the British in Dutch propaganda materials had
lasting effects on nation building both in the Netherlands and
South Africa of the period.
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