The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680

Goslinga, Cornelis Ch., The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1971.

Available in Open Access Edition.

Reviewed by Dr. Thomas Mathews in Caribbean Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4, Jan., 1972.

Reviewed in Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (3).

Reviewed in American Anthropologist, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Sep., 1974).

Cited in e-JPH, Vol.1, number 1, Summer 2003.

Cornelis Christiaan Goslinga was the son of a shipping Commander Major Christiaan Goslinga (1877-1931) and his wife Catharina Verkade (1883-1960) and was born in Schiedam, Holland on 22 July 1910 and he had five siblings… Cornelis obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy whilst at the Nijmegen University, Netherlands (1956). In 1962 he was appointment assistant professor at University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Then 1967 he was appointed visiting Professor of History at the University of Florida. He became Professor of History at the University of Florida. (…) He wrote some twelve books about Netherlands Antilles, History, Suriname, Slavery, Dutch Caribbean Area, West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands), West Indies, and even Venezuelan Painting. In later years he was ably assisted by his daughter Marian, a budding historian. His 712 page book entitled "The Dutch in the Caribbean and in the Guianas 1680-1791" (1985) was written while he was emeritus professor of the University of Florida. It is a sequel to his "The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680" (1971). However, the subjects dealt with in his second volume are different and his source data has been criticized by some. In the earlier study he concentrated on the political and military developments caused by the Dutch penetration in the Americas.