The Dutch MomentThe author draws on a dazzling variety of archival and printed sources. The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to the field.Renaissance Quarterly In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades long