Degrees

• Ph.D. in History, University of Leiden, 1995
• M.A. in History, University of Groningen, 1987
• B.A. in Sociology, University of Groningen, 1983

Affiliated Department

History

Scholarly and creative works

• Article in Refereed Journal

  Soixante ans après Palmer. L’historiographie récente de l’ère des révolutions et la politique nordaméricaine actuel.

  Published in ORDA. L’ordinaire des Amériques.
  June

  2025

  Vol. 233
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Radical Royalism in the Age of Revolutions

  Universität Leipzig (Germany)
  April

  2025
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Fighting for Legal Equality: Jewish Agency in the Age of Revolutions

  Centrum für Jüdische Studien, Universität Graz (Austria)
  April

  2025
  Sponsored by Centrum für Jüdische Studien, Universität Graz (Austria)
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  The Idea of Freedom among the Laboring People in the Age of Revolutions

  Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal)
  March

  2025
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  The Asiento and the Transatlantic Trade of Enslaved Africans (circa 1580-1750): Trade Networks and Transnational Connectors
  Chapter: Exiting the Asiento: Diplomacy and the Dutch Slave Trade during the War of the Spanish Succession.

  2025
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  European Colonial Failures, c. 1560-1800: Early Modern Polities, Overseas Interests, and Empire Building
  Chapter: Nipped in the Bud or Put Out of Its Misery? Dutch Cayenne as a Colonial Endeavor

  2025
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  Shaping Brazil: Colonialism and governance – from the Portuguese Enlightenment to Brazilian Independence (1750-1825)
  Chapter: Foreword

  Published by Routledge

  2025
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  Ibero-Dutch Imperial Entanglements in the Long Seventeenth Century: Geopolitical Shifts in Global Perspective
  Chapter: The Mutual Constitution of the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish Empires in the Long Seventeenth Century.

  Published by Palgrave MacMillan

  2024
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Sixty Years Since Palmer: Assessing the Current Historiography of the Age of Revolutions

  American Politics and the Memory of the Revolution (18th-21st centuries)

  Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (France)
  November

  2024
  Willem Klooster
• Reviews, Abstracts, Pamphlets

  Review of Seohyon Jung and Leah M. Thomas, eds., Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge, 2021. 

  New West Indian Guide

  Fall

  2024

  Vol. 98

  Issue #3-4
  Willem Klooster
• Article in Refereed Journal

  荷属大西洋的水手》，白嬅译；梅雪芹、田马爽、郭逸鹏审校 

  Published in 海洋史研究
  Fall

  2024

  Vol. 19
  Willem Klooster
• Book

  The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

  2023
  Cambridge

  UK
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
  Chapter: Introduction

  Published by Cambridge University Press

  2023
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
  Chapter: International Warfare and the non-British Caribbean

  Published by Cambridge University Press

  2023
  Willem Klooster
• Book

  Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World 

  2023
  Ithaca, New York

  USA
  Wim Klooster, Aviva Ben-Ur
• Book

  Jewish Entanglement in the Atlantic World

  2023
  Ithaca, New York

  USA
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  Jewish Entanglement in the Atlantic World
  Chapter: (with Aviva Ben-Ur) “Introduction: The Revolutionary Potential of Atlantic Jewish History

  Published by Cornell University Press

  2023
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  Jewish Entanglement in the Atlantic World
  Chapter: Jewish Involvement in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

  Published by Cornell University Press

  2023
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Revolutions (keynote)

  Summer Academy of Atlantic History, “Multiplicities of Freedom and Unfreedom in Atlantic Worlds"

  Wilberforce Institute for Study of Slavery, Hull, U.K.
  August

  2023
  Willem Klooster
• Book

  荷兰海洋帝国的兴衰：17世纪大西洋世界的战争、贸易与殖民 

  2023
  Beijing

  China
  Willem Klooster
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Economic Equality in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

  Published in New England Quarterly-A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters
  Fall

  2023

  Vol. 96

  Issue #3
  Willem Klooster
• Reviews, Abstracts, Pamphlets

  Review of Giovanna Montenegro, German Conquistadors in Venezuela: The Welsers’ Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022; and Eleonora Poggio, Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería: El impacto de la migración laboral y mercantil de la región del Mar del Norte en Nueva España, 1550-1640. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. 

  Colonial Latin American Review

  Fall

  2023

  Vol. 32

  Issue #3
  Willem Klooster
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Nonwhites and Brazilian Independence in Comparative Perspective — Não-brancos e a Independência do Brasil em perspectiva comparada.

  Published in Antíteses
  2022

  Vol. 15

  Issue #special issue
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  Entre Exclusif et contrebande. Les navigations commerciales aux Antilles 1600-1830
  Chapter: Le commerce intercolonial des mules.

  Published by L'Harmattan

  2022
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  The Mutual Constitution of the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish Empires in the Long Seventeenth Century.

  Ibero-Dutch Entanglements in the Seventeenth Century: Geopolitical Shifts in Global Perspective

  Purdue University
  March

  2022
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Rumors of Hope, Rumors of Fear in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

  University of Maine, Orono
  February

  2022
  Sponsored by University of Maine, Orono
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland II
  Chapter: 1654. Een suikerrevolutie in Frans West-Indië.

  Published by AmboAnthos

  2022
  Willem Klooster
• Book

  Spanish American Independence Movements: A History in Documents

  Broadview Sources Series

  2021

  ISBN #9781554814565 / 1554814561
  Peterborough

  Canada
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  The Imperial Self-Image of a Nascent Nation: Dutch Brazil as the New Rome

  Nations & Empires

  Toulouse
  May

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  The Dutch Atlantic World at the Time of the First West India Company

  Roundtable Cultural Seminar

  New York City
  April

  2021
  Sponsored by Roundtable Cultural Seminar
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Jewish Involvement in the Age of Revolutions

  Atlantic Jewish Worlds

  Philadelphia
  April

  2021
  Sponsored by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Sons of Exile: The Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830

  NEH Book Workshop 2021

  Notre Dame, Indiana
  April

  2021
  Sponsored by Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  The Petition to Keep New Netherland: Amsterdam’s Fear of English Ascendancy

  New Netherland Seminar

  Albany, NY
  December

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Smuggling and Slavery in the Dutch West Indies before 1800

  Lecture Series “From the City of Vlissingen to Nieuw Walcheren: The Dutch in the West Indies."

  Tobago
  December

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Amsterdam in the World, the World in Amsterdam in 1667.

  Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
  December

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  The Dutch as the New Romans: The Short-Lived Imperial Dream of the West India Company

  Symposium on New perspectives on the establishment and functioning of the West India Company 400 years ago

  The Hague, the Netherlands
  December

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Comparaison de la lutte pour l’égalité des droits des Juifs et des gens de couleur libres

  École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – Condorcet, Paris
  November

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Rumors of Hope, Rumors of Fear: News that Moved People in the Age of Revolutions

  Centre d’études nord-américaines (CENA), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – Condorcet, Paris
  November

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Biais et silences dans l’historiographie de l’âge des révolutions

  Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution française – Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine

  Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  November

  2021
  Sponsored by Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Exiting the Asiento: Diplomacy and the Dutch Slave Trade during the War of the Spanish Succession

  International Conference “El Asiento y la trata transatlántica de africanos esclavizados (circa 1580-1750). Redes mercantiles y conectores transnacionales

  Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain
  November

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Représentation, démocratie et peur de la plèbe dans les régimes révolutionnaires

  École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – Condorcet, Paris
  November

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  New Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations: Multidisciplinary Approaches
  Chapter: Making Comparisons in Atlantic History: Representation in the Age of Revolutions

  Published by Universitätsverlag Winter

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  As Américas na Primeira Modernidade (1492-1750)
  Chapter: Dimensões imperiais e inter-imperiais da América holandesa, 1590-1795

  Published by Editora Milfontes

  2021
  Willem Klooster
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Silver and the Dutch Revolt: The Obsession with Spanish Silver in the 17th-Century Dutch Atlantic

  Published in The Sixteenth-Century Journal
  Spring

  2021

  Vol. 52

  Issue #1
  Willem Klooster
• Reviews, Abstracts, Pamphlets

  Borderless Empire: Dutch Guiana in the Atlantic World, 1750-1800

  Journal of American History

  Winter

  2021

  Vol. 107

  Issue #4
  Willem Klooster
• Reviews, Abstracts, Pamphlets

  A Silver River in a Silver World: Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648-1678

  Renaissance Quarterly

  Fall

  2021

  Vol. 74

  Issue #4
  Willem Klooster
• Chapters In Books

  De slavernij in Oost en West: Het Amsterdam-onderzoek
  Chapter: Amsterdam, de WIC en het Groot Desseyn

  Published by Het Unieboek/Spectrum

  2020
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  The Imperial Dimension of Dutch Brazil

  Revisiting Dutch Brazil

  Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands
  June

  2020
  Sponsored by Mauritshuis
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  The Petition to Keep New Netherland: Amsterdam’s Fear of English Ascendancy

  Low Countries History Seminar

  London
  November

  2020
  Sponsored by University College London
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Silver and the Dutch Revolt: The Obsession with Spanish Silver in the 17th-Century Dutch Atlantic

  Annual meeting of the American Historical Association

  New York City
  January

  2020
  Sponsored by American Historical Association
  Willem Klooster
• Other Scholarly or Creative Work

  The Cost of Deprivation: Sailors in the Dutch Atlantic

  Willem Klooster
• Other Scholarly or Creative Work

  The Gotham Center for New York History blog

  Willem Klooster
• Article in Refereed Journal

  Comparative Perspectives on the Urban Black Atlantic on the Eve of Abolition

  Published in International Review of Social History
  spring

  2020
  Wim Klooster
• Reviews, Abstracts, Pamphlets

  Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives

  Hispanic American Historical Review

  Fall

  2020

  Vol. 100

  Issue #4
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Making Comparisons in Atlantic History: Representation in the Age of Revolutions

  New Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations: Multidisciplinary Approaches

  Munich, Germany
  July

  2019
  Sponsored by Bayerische Amerika-Akademie
  Willem Klooster
• Reviews, Abstracts, Pamphlets

  Review of J. C. D. Clark, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution

  American Historical Review

  June

  2019

  Vol. 124

  Issue #2
  Oxford University Press
• Presentations

  Amsterdam’s Interest in New Netherland: The 1667 Petition to Keep the Colony

  Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck Lecture

  Albany, N.Y.
  May

  2019
  Sponsored by New Netherland Institute
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Imperial and Inter-Imperial Aspects of the Early Dutch Slave Trade

  2019 Annual Brueghel Colloquium

  Philadelphia
  December

  2019
  Sponsored by University of Pennsylvania
  Willem Klooster
• Presentations

  Opportunity and Geography in the Inter-Imperial Caribbean Mule Trade

  Entre Exclusif et contrebande, Le commerce maritime aux Antilles XVIIe -début XIXe siècle

  Fort-de-France, Martinique
  October

  2019
  Sponsored by Université des Antilles
  Willem Klooster