Abstract
AbstractDuring 1625–1675, the United Provinces emerged as a dominant economic force in Europe, especially given the Dutch advances in fishing, shipbuilding, textile production, and agriculture. Large-scale migration in the United Provinces, and from the southern Netherlands, helped supply labor forces for development in these industries. Dutch capitalist development through investment and trade expanded to other areas of Europe and to other world regions where Dutch military forces displaced European rivals in regions of Asia, Africa, and the New World. The migration of Dutch capital to peripheral regions through quasi-governmental trading companies, the migration of labor to industrial projects within the United Provinces, and the forced migration of working populations within colonies and regions controlled by the Dutch, all helped make the Dutch the first hegemonic power in the emerging capitalist world-system in the seventeenth century.
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