Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1: Caribbean Encounters -- 1 Curaçao as a Transit Center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies -- 2 Paramaribo as Dutch and Atlantic Nodal Point, 1640-1795 -- 3 Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, 1621-1733 -- Section 2: European Encounters -- 4 The French Atlantic and the Dutch, Late Seventeeth-Late Eighteenth Century -- 5 Anglo-Dutch Economic Relations in the Atlantic World, 1688-1783 -- 6 A Network-Based Merchant Empire: Dutch Trade in the Hispanic Atlantic (1680-1740) -- 7 A Public and Private Dutch West India Interest -- Section 3: Intellectual and Intercultural Encounters -- 8 Adultery Here and There: Crossing Sexual Boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic -- 9 The Scholarly Atlantic: Circuits of Knowledge Between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Americas in the Eighteenth Century -- 10 The "Dutch" "Atlantic" and the Dubious Case of Frans Post -- Section 4: Shifting Encounters -- 11 The Eighteenth-Century Danish, Dutch and Swedish Free Ports in the Northeastern Caribbean: Continuity and Change -- 12 Dutch Atlantic Decline During "The Age of Revolutions" -- Section 5: Perspectives on the Dutch Atlantic -- 13 The Rise and Decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600-1800 -- 14 Conclusion: The Dutch Moment in Atlantic Historiography -- Bibliography -- Index.