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According to Wikipedia, Pieter Cornelis Emmer is a Dutch Emeritus Professor of Colonial History at Leiden University, specialising in the European Expansion, and related themes of slavery and immigration. Scholarship Prof Piet Emmer studied history and economics in Leiden. He worked at the University of Amsterdam where he obtained his PhD in 1974 with the thesis 'England, the Netherlands, Africa and the slave trade in the nineteenth century'. He then worked at Leiden University until 2009, as full professor of the history of European expansion and related migration and slavery. In addition, he was an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, from 1 September 2005 to 1 September 2007. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Churchill College in Cambridge, the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar. As Visiting Professor, he was associated and taught at the University of Texas in Austin, the Universität Hamburg and the Université de Bretagne-Sud. He was a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and Journal of Caribbean History. His best-known book is: "The Dutch Slave Trade 1500-1850." In 2009, he retired.

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Colonialism and migration : indentured labour before and after slavery (1986) (64)
The Dutch Atlantic, 1600–1800 Expansion Without Empire (1999) (34)
The Dutch slave trade, 1500-1850 (2005) (23)
The meek Hindu; the recruitment of Indian indentured labourers for service overseas, 1870–1916 (1986) (19)
The myth of early globalization: the Atlantic economy, 1500–1800 (2003) (16)
A deus ex machina revisited : Atlantic colonial trade and European economic development (2006) (16)
More than profits? The contribution of the slave trade to the Dutch economy: assessing Fatah-Black and Van Rossum (2016) (15)
The organization of interoceanic trade in European expansion, 1450-1800 (1996) (14)
The West India Company, 1621–1791: Dutch or Atlantic? (1981) (14)
The History of the Dutch Slave Trade, A Bibliographical Survey (1972) (13)
Immigration into the Caribbean; The Introduction of Chinese and East Indian Indentured Labourers Between 1839 and 1917 (1990) (13)
The First Global War: the Dutch Versus Iberia in Asia, Africa and the New World, 1590-1609 (2003) (12)
Slavery and the rise of the Atlantic system: The Dutch and the making of the second Atlantic system (1991) (12)
'Mind the gap': International Database on Employment & Adaptable Labour (IDEAL) (2007) (12)
European Expansion and Migration: Essays on the Inter-Continental Migration from Africa, Asia and Europe. (1994) (11)
The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy: Circuits of Trade, Money and Knowledge, 1650–1914 , edited by Adrian Leonard & David Pretel (2016) (11)
European expansion and migration: essays on the intercontinental migration from Africa Asia and Europe. (1995) (11)
Slavery in the Development of the Americas: The Dutch and the Slave Americas (2004) (10)
PLANTATION SLAVERY IN SURINAM IN THE LAST DECADE BEFORE EMANCIPATION: THE CASE OF CATHARINA SOPHIA * (1977) (10)
Colonialism and migration: an overview (1986) (9)
Jonathan J. Israel, Empires and Entrepots. The Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy and the Jews, 1585–1713 London/Ronceverte (Hambledon 1990. (1991) (9)
The Economic Impact of the Dutch Expansion Overseas, 1570–1870 (1998) (8)
Drescher (Seymour). Econocide, British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (1979) (8)
New Societies: The Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century (1999) (8)
‘A spirit of independence’ or lack of education for the market? Freedmen and Asian indentured labourers in the post‐emancipation Caribbean, 1834–1917 (2000) (7)
Between Slavery and freedom: The period of apprenticeship in Suriname (Dutch Guiana), 1863–1873 (1993) (7)
Reappraisals in Overseas History (1979) (7)
The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580–1880: Trade, Slavery, and Emancipation (2018) (7)
European Expansion and Migration; the European Colonial Past and Intercontinental Migration. An Overview (1990) (5)
Who abolished slavery : slave revolts and abolitionism : a debate with João Pedro Marques (2010) (5)
Surinam and the Decline of the Dutch Slave Trade (1975) (4)
Capitalism Mistaken? The Economic Decline of Surinam and the Plantation Loans, 1773–1850; A Rehabilitation (1996) (4)
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London (1979) (4)
The Myth of Early Globalisation: The Atlantic Economy, 1500-1800 (2008) (4)
The Position of Indian Women in Surinam (2018) (4)
IX. Asians Compared: Some Observations regarding Indian and Indonesian Indentured Labourers in Surinam, 1873-1939 (1987) (3)
Caribbean Plantations and Indentured Labour, 1640–1917: A Constructive or Destructive Deviation from the Free Labour Market? (1997) (3)
Intercontinental migration as a world historical process (1993) (3)
European Expansion and Unfree Labour: An Introduction (1997) (3)
What is Overseas History? Some Reflections on a Colloquium and a Problem (1979) (3)
The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 (2020) (3)
Capitalism After Slavery? The French Slave Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic, 1500–1900 (1993) (3)
General History of the Caribbean (2003) (3)
Europe and the immigration debate (2004) (2)
:Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World.(The California World History Library.) (2008) (2)
The Two Expansion Systems in the Atlantic (1991) (2)
“As Always, The Trouble Is With The French." Britain, France, The Netherlands And The Colonial Labor Market In The 19th Century (2011) (2)
Weathering different storms: regional agriculture and slave families in the non-cotton south, 1800-1860 (2005) (2)
Scholarship or solidarity? The post-emancipation era in the Caribbean reconsidered (1995) (2)
Reseñas/Book Reviews - The Colonial Caribbean in Transition. Essays on Post-emancipation Social and Cultural History (2002) (1)
Regimes of Memory: the Case of the Netherlands (2013) (1)
A “Spirit of Independence” or Lack of Education for the Market ? Freedmen and Asian Indentured Labourers in the Post-emancipation Caribbean, 1834-1917 (2004) (1)
Possessing the world: taking the measurements of colonisation from the 18th to the 20th century – By Bouda Etemad (2008) (1)
The Organisation of Global Trade: the Monopoly Companies, 1600–1800 (2014) (1)
Slavery and the Slave Trade of the Minor Atlantic Powers (2011) (1)
Reappraisals in overseas history : essays on post-war historiography about European expansion (1979) (1)
Harmful Silica Fibres and Slave Demography (1999) (1)
The Atlantic Slave Trade : New Approaches. An Introduction (1975) (1)
The Dutch capital market and the new world, 1600-1800 (2000) (1)
Migration: Risk or Development? A Round Table Discussion (2011) (1)
The Encyclopedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe: GROUPS (2011) (1)
The Dutch and the Portuguese in West Africa: Empire Building and Atlantic System (1580-1674) (2004) (1)
The Slave Trade and Slavery, a Round Table Discussion (2009) (1)
The Slave trade, Slavery and Abolition (1978) (1)
The Expansion of Europe: Collecting and Murdering (2013) (0)
Conference on ‘Religion, Anti-Slavery and Reform’, July 10–15, 1978 Rockefeller Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy (1979) (0)
The Dutch Tropics (2020) (0)
Book Review:The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815. Johannes Menne Postma (1992) (0)
New Holland and New Netherland (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Scholarship and political correctness: popular and unpopular views on forced labour in the Atlantic during the era of European expansion, 1500–1850 (2010) (0)
William F. Sharp, Slavery on the Spanish Frontier; the Columbian Chocó, 1680–1810 . University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1976, xvi, £253 p.p., 26 illustrations, 6 maps, 19 tables, $ 9.95, ISBN 0806113758. (1978) (0)
C.Ch. Goslinga, The Dutch in the Caribbean and the Surinam 1791/5-1942, III (1993) (0)
The Grumbling Hive (2020) (0)
The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City by Dianne Guenin-Lelle (review) (2017) (0)
The Abolition of Slavery in the Americas; the U.S., the Caribbean, Brazil and Mexico (1988) (0)
Book Review: Amsterdam (2001) (0)
European Expansion and Globalisation (2006) (0)
Migration and Selection (2008) (0)
Seymour Drescher, From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and the Fall of Atlantic Slavery . New York (New York University Press) 1999. xxv + 454 pp. ISBN 081471918X. (1999) (0)
W. Hoogbergen, The Boni Maroon war in Suriname (1993) (0)
Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613–1688, by L.H. Roper (2019) (0)
Cornelis Goslinga, A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague etc., 1979. ISBN 90 247 2118 0. Price: IIfl 37.50. (1981) (0)
The second Colloquium ‘Reappraisals in overseas history’. December 16,17 The Netherlands (1977) (0)
Kerry Ward. Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. xv, 340. $85.00 (2010) (0)
The Expansion of Europe and the Transformation of Third World Agriculture: Two Colonial Models (1982) (0)
The Atlantic in global history, 1500–2000 By Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Erik R. Seeman, eds., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Pp. 258. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-192714-8, US$30.80. (2007) (0)
Some recently published works in German on Imperialism (1977) (0)
Atlantic Slave Trade (The) (2020) (0)
The Encyclopedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe: Southeastern Europe (2011) (0)
Walton Look Lai. Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 . (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture.) Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1993. Pp. xxviii, 370. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-4465-7. (1995) (0)
‘The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade’, Symposium, University of Aarhus, Denmark, October 17–19, 1978 (1979) (0)
Russian and Ukrainian Seasonal Laborers in the Grain Belt of New Russia and the North Caucasus in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (2011) (0)
Beyond the Line; Resisting Iberia outside Europe. The Dutch in Asia, Africa and the New World, 1590-1609 (1998) (0)
Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, Marcus Rediker, editors. Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World. (The California World History Library.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. x, 263. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95 (2008) (0)
On the Muslim Question Norton Anne Princeton University Press, Princeton/Oxford, 2013 (xi+265 pages) ISBN 978-0-691-15704-7 (2014) (0)
Reviews of Books (2007) (0)
The Empire at Home (2020) (0)
The Eighth Province (2020) (0)
Mortality and the Javanese Diaspora (1997) (0)
Book Review: Work and Community among West African Workers since the Nineteenth Century (2001) (0)
Decoloniality in the Netherlands (2022) (0)
Borderless Empire: Dutch Guiana in the Atlantic World, 1750–1800, by Bram Hoonhout (2020) (0)
The Atlantic World (2020) (0)
The Third Summer Course on the History of European Expansion/Comparative Non-Western History, San Feliu de Guixols (Spain), 18–24 July 1994 (1994) (0)
Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud (eds) The Politics of International Migration Management London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010 US$90, ISBN 978-0-230-27258-3 (2012) (0)
The Second Anglo-Dutch Conference on Comparative Colonial History, Leiden, September 24 and 25, 1981 (1982) (0)
Turkey and Europe: The Role of Migration (2013) (0)
Slave Studies Conference: Directions in Current Scholarship, University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, March 14-17,1979. (1979) (0)
The non-hispanic west indies (2017) (0)
Harde data over de Atlantische slavenhandel - Herbert S. Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge 2010) 241 p., ill., krt., tab., €22,50 ISBN 9780521182508 (2011) (0)
German sailors in the Dutch mercantile marine from the early 17th to the end of the 19th century (2011) (0)
R. Hoefte, P. Meel, Twentieth-century Suriname. Continuities and discontinuities in a new world society (2002) (0)
About our Authors (1999) (0)
Book Review: Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1989) (0)
Us and Them: Inter-cultural trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640 (2003) (0)
Globalisering. Interdisciplinair bekeken , Jacobus Delwaide and Gustaaf Geeraerts (Editors), Brussels: Brussels University Press (Institute for European Studies, publication series number 12), 2008, 335 pp., ISBN 978 90 5487 490 4--- Either ISSN or Journal title must be supplied. (2010) (0)
ITI volume 12 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1988) (0)
‘I did not want to run around as the son of some locally well-known professor.’ An Interview with Professor Dr. W.J. Mommsen (2000) (0)
J. Postma, V. Enthoven, Riches from Atlantic commerce. Dutch Transatlantic trade and shipping, 1585-1817 (2004) (0)
Anglo-Dutch Conference on Comparative Colonial Social and Economic History, Cambridge, U.K., St. Catherine's College, June 18-21, 1979. (1979) (0)
Stuart Schwartz, ed., Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1650 . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-8078-2875-0 (hbk.); 0-8078-5538-3 (pbk.). (2005) (0)
“The Legacies of Slavery” Conference, University of Hull, July 26–30, 1983 (1983) (0)
Fujianese migrants in London since the end of the 20th century (2011) (0)
Slavery and Abolition in Comparative Perspective; Two Conferences (1988) (0)
Maarten Kuitenbrouwer, The Netherlands and the Rise of Modern Imperialism: Colonies and Foreign Policy, 1870-1902. New York and Oxford (Berg Publishers) 1991. ISBN 0-85496-681-1. Price £ 37.50. (1992) (0)
Managing migration and global interdependence (2006) (0)
Barriers Instead of Bridges: The Developed World and Intercontinental Migration (2020) (0)
Econocide. British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (second edition with a new preface by the author and a new foreword by David Brion Davis), Seymour Drescher, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2010, US$59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3446-6 (2011) (0)
Linda M. RupertCreolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. xii + 347 pp. (Paper US$24.95) (2014) (0)
Central Europe and Colonialism: Introduction (2018) (0)
Nigel Worden, Slavery in Dutch South Africa (Cambridge University Press: African Studies Series 44, Cambridge 1985) xiii + 207 pp., price not given. ISBN 0521-258758. (1987) (0)
The Dutch Slave Trade in the Atlantic, 1600–1800 (2021) (0)
Iranian refugees in northern, western and central Europe since 1980: the example of the Netherlands (2011) (0)
‘Asia in the Making of Europe’. An Interview with Edwin Van Kley (2001) (0)
Conference on Religion, anti-slavery and reform (July 1978, Bellagio, Italy) (July 10-15, 1978, Rockefeller Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy.) (1979) (0)
David Armitage, Greater Britain, 1516–1776: Essays in Atlantic History . Aldershot, Hampshire, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. 312 pp. ISBN 0-86078-942-X (hbk.). (2004) (0)
The Rise and Decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600–1800 (2014) (0)
The Encyclopedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe: The Encyclopedia: Idea, Concept, Realization (2011) (0)
James Pritchard, In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670–1730 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 512 pp. ISBN 0-521-82742-6. (2005) (0)
Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden (eds.), Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World , 1500–1800. Princeton (Princeton University Press) 1987, 390 pp. ISBN 0-691-05372-3. Price: $35.00. (1988) (0)
Surinam in the eighteenth century: An Archival Research Project (1977) (0)
A General History of the Caribbean: Preliminary Unesco-Meeting, Paris, December 14-18, 1981. (1982) (0)
Book Reviews -James Sidbury, Peter Linebaugh ,The many-headed Hydra: Sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. 433 pp., Marcus Rediker (eds) (2006) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. xiii + 204 pp. (Paper US$ 28.95) (2013) (0)
Book Review: The “Mother of all Trades”: The Baltic Grain Trade in Amsterdam from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century (2002) (0)
Leos Müller, Consuls, Corsairs, and Commerce: The Swedish Consular Service and Long-Distance Shipping, 1720–1815. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis/Studia Historica Upsaliensia 213. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2004. 268 pp. ISBN: 91-554-6003-8. (2005) (0)
Colonialism and the British Diaspora: S S R C Conference on the Diaspora of the British, 6-8 July 1981, Rutherford College, U. of Kent, Great Britain. (1982) (0)
The International Slave Trade Colloquium, Nantes, July 8–12, 1985 (1986) (0)
Trevor Burnard, Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 (2015) (0)

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