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Professor Klooster received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Groningen in 1983 and 1987, respectively, and a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden in 1995. He has been at Clark since 2003.
Dr. Klooster specializes in the history of the Atlantic world (15th-19th centuries). He teaches classes on comparative colonialism (the Americas), the age of Atlantic revolutions (1776-1824), and Caribbean history.
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(s)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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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
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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
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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
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2024
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Vol. 19
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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.●
2024
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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
Spring
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2024
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The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Revolutions (keynote)
Summer Academy of Atlantic History, “Multiplicities of Freedom and Unfreedom in Atlantic Worlds"
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Wilberforce Institute for Study of Slavery, Hull, U.K.
August
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2023
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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
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2023
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Vol. 32
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Issue #3
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Economic Equality in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Published in New England Quarterly-A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters
Fall
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2023
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Vol. 96
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Issue #3
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Jewish Entanglement in the Atlantic World
Chapter: Jewish Involvement in the Age of Atlantic RevolutionsPublished by Cornell University Press
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2023
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Jewish Entanglement in the Atlantic World
Chapter: (with Aviva Ben-Ur) “Introduction: The Revolutionary Potential of Atlantic Jewish HistoryPublished by Cornell University Press
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2023
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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
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2023
Tiandi Press
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Jewish Entanglement in the Atlantic World
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2023
Cornell University Press
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Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World
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2023
Cornell University Press
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The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Chapter: International Warfare and the non-British CaribbeanPublished by Cambridge University Press
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2023
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The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Chapter: IntroductionPublished by Cambridge University Press
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2023
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The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
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2023
Cambridge University Press
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Entre Exclusif et contrebande. Les navigations commerciales aux Antilles 1600-1830
Chapter: Le commerce intercolonial des mules.Published by L'Harmattan
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2022
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Nonwhites and Brazilian Independence in Comparative Perspective -- Não-brancos e a Independência do Brasil em perspectiva comparada.
Published in Antíteses
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2022
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Vol. 15
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Issue #special issue
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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
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Purdue University
March
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2022
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Rumors of Hope, Rumors of Fear in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
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University of Maine, Orono
February
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2022
Sponsored by University of Maine, Orono
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Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland II
Chapter: 1654. Een suikerrevolutie in Frans West-Indië.Published by AmboAnthos
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2022
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Représentation, démocratie et peur de la plèbe dans les régimes révolutionnaires
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École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – Condorcet, Paris
November
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2021
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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
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Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain
November
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2021
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Biais et silences dans l’historiographie de l’âge des révolutions
Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution française – Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine
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Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
November
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2021
Sponsored by Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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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
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November
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2021
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Comparaison de la lutte pour l’égalité des droits des Juifs et des gens de couleur libres
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École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – Condorcet, Paris
November
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2021
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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
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The Hague, the Netherlands
December
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2021
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Amsterdam in the World, the World in Amsterdam in 1667.
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Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
December
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2021
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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."
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Tobago
December
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2021
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The Petition to Keep New Netherland: Amsterdam’s Fear of English Ascendancy
New Netherland Seminar
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Albany, NY
December
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2021
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The Imperial Self-Image of a Nascent Nation: Dutch Brazil as the New Rome
Nations & Empires
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Toulouse
May
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2021
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A Silver River in a Silver World: Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648-1678
Renaissance Quarterly
Fall
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2021
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Vol. 74
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Issue #4
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Borderless Empire: Dutch Guiana in the Atlantic World, 1750-1800
Journal of American History
Winter
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2021
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Vol. 107
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Issue #4
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Sons of Exile: The Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830
NEH Book Workshop 2021
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Notre Dame, Indiana
April
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2021
Sponsored by Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Jewish Involvement in the Age of Revolutions
Atlantic Jewish Worlds
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Philadelphia
April
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2021
Sponsored by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
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The Dutch Atlantic World at the Time of the First West India Company
Roundtable Cultural Seminar
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New York City
April
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2021
Sponsored by Roundtable Cultural Seminar
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As Américas na Primeira Modernidade (1492-1750)
Chapter: Dimensões imperiais e inter-imperiais da América holandesa, 1590-1795Published by Editora Milfontes
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2021
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Spanish American Independence Movements: A History in Documents
Broadview Sources Series
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2021
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ISBN #9781554814565 / 1554814561
Broadview Press
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New Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Chapter: Making Comparisons in Atlantic History: Representation in the Age of RevolutionsPublished by Universitätsverlag Winter
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2021
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Silver and the Dutch Revolt: The Obsession with Spanish Silver in the 17th-Century Dutch Atlantic
Published in The Sixteenth-Century Journal
Spring
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2021
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Vol. 52
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Issue #1
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Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives
Hispanic American Historical Review
Fall
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2020
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Vol. 100
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Issue #4
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The Petition to Keep New Netherland: Amsterdam’s Fear of English Ascendancy
Low Countries History Seminar
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London
November
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2020
Sponsored by University College London
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The Gotham Center for New York History blog
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2020
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De slavernij in Oost en West: Het Amsterdam-onderzoek
Chapter: Amsterdam, de WIC en het Groot DesseynPublished by Het Unieboek/Spectrum
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2020
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Silver and the Dutch Revolt: The Obsession with Spanish Silver in the 17th-Century Dutch Atlantic
Annual meeting of the American Historical Association
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New York City
January
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2020
Sponsored by American Historical Association
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The Imperial Dimension of Dutch Brazil
Revisiting Dutch Brazil
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Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands
June
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2020
Sponsored by Mauritshuis
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Comparative Perspectives on the Urban Black Atlantic on the Eve of Abolition
Published in International Review of Social History
spring
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2020
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Imperial and Inter-Imperial Aspects of the Early Dutch Slave Trade
2019 Annual Brueghel Colloquium
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Philadelphia
December
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2019
Sponsored by University of Pennsylvania
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Opportunity and Geography in the Inter-Imperial Caribbean Mule Trade
Entre Exclusif et contrebande, Le commerce maritime aux Antilles XVIIe -début XIXe siècle
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Fort-de-France, Martinique
October
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2019
Sponsored by Université des Antilles
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Making Comparisons in Atlantic History: Representation in the Age of Revolutions
New Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations: Multidisciplinary Approaches
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Munich, Germany
July
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2019
Sponsored by Bayerische Amerika-Akademie
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Amsterdam’s Interest in New Netherland: The 1667 Petition to Keep the Colony
Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck Lecture
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Albany, N.Y.
May
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2019
Sponsored by New Netherland Institute
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Review of J. C. D. Clark, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
American Historical Review
June
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2019
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Vol. 124
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Issue #2
Oxford University Press
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The Cost of Deprivation: Sailors in the Dutch Atlantic
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