{"id":7551,"date":"2026-03-09T20:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.org\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:27:01","slug":"book-publication-gijs-dreijer-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/?p=7551","title":{"rendered":"New book publication by Posthumus fellow Gijs Dreijer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-032-01086-5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dreijer_Private-Entrepreneurship-European-Imperialism-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dreijer_Private-Entrepreneurship-European-Imperialism-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dreijer_Private-Entrepreneurship-European-Imperialism-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dreijer_Private-Entrepreneurship-European-Imperialism-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dreijer_Private-Entrepreneurship-European-Imperialism-1088x1536.jpg 1088w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dreijer_Private-Entrepreneurship-European-Imperialism-1451x2048.jpg 1451w, https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dreijer_Private-Entrepreneurship-European-Imperialism.jpg 1808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Palgrave Macmillan recently published a new open-access publication, authored by Posthumus fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eur.nl\/people\/gijs-dreijer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Gijs Dreijers<\/a>, <em>Private Entrepreneurship and European Imperialism: Dutch Entrepreneurs in the Scramble for Africa, 1830s-1910s<\/em> in the Palgrave Studies in Economic History book series.<\/p>\n<p>This open access book presents a new perspective on European imperialism in Africa, by focusing on the role of Dutch private entrepreneurs in colonial activities during the so-called \u2018Scramble for Africa\u2019. Distinguishing between a state-based \u2018Partition of\u2019 and an actor-based \u2018Scramble for\u2019 Africa, the book illustrates this process by tracking the entrepreneurial strategy of a group of Dutch entrepreneurs in the Scramble, at a time when the Dutch state itself largely withdrew from the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>This book thus investigates why and how nineteenth-century Dutch entrepreneurs from the port city of Rotterdam invested significant resources in West and West Central Africa between the 1830s and the 1910s. It demonstrates the trans-national nature of colonial investments in the Scramble for Africa, highlighting the crucial role Dutch entrepreneurs played in trade, production and investment in empires across West and West Central Africa (the Congo Free State, French Congo and Portuguese Angola). The book aims to rethink the Dutch role in European imperialism more broadly and its repercussions in the present day.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bttn\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-032-01086-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BOOK INFO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palgrave Macmillan recently published a new open-access publication, authored by Posthumus fellow Dr Gijs Dreijers, Private Entrepreneurship and European Imperialism: Dutch Entrepreneurs in the Scramble for Africa, 1830s-1910s in the Palgrave Studies in Economic History book series. This open access book presents a new perspective on European imperialism in Africa, by focusing on the role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}