@inbook{9b67e5dd6f4147bebe2a2f7df3d4f740,
title = "Dutch Republicanism",
abstract = "This chapter discusses the development of republican practices and theories in the Dutch Republic from its rise in the 1580s to its demise around 1800. Focusing on the writings of, among others, Hugo Grotius, Pieter de la Court, and Baruch Spinoza, the chapter discusses the tensions between aristocratic and democratic interpretations of local autonomy, shared government, and collective forms of citizen rule. It relates how a commercial conception of republican citizenship resulted in a positive assessment of the amalgamation between self-interest and the common good. Analyzing the paradox between the propagation of republican liberty at home and the institution of chattel slavery abroad, the chapter shows how the rationalization of the Dutch domestic order went hand in hand with the rationalization of imperial rule. As a confederal republican polity that developed into a colonial empire, the case of the Dutch Republic reveals the intricate relationship between republicanism and empire.",
keywords = "Dutch Republic, empire, Hugo Grotius, Pieter de la Court, Baruch Spinoza, commerce, concord, self-interest, liberty, slavery",
author = "Arthur Weststeijn",
year = "2024",
month = jan,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197754115.013.4",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780197754115",
series = "Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
editor = "Lovett, {Frank } and Sellers, {Mortimer }",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism",
}