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Roots of Our Future
 by Linda M. Rupert

This book presents an overview of the colorful commercial history of Willemstad, Curacao. It covers over three hundred years, from the town's establishment as a Dutch naval base in 1634, through its years of glory as the center of the Dutch trade empire in western hemisphere in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to a period of relative decline

and stagnation throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on to the revitalization brought first by the oil industry in the early 1900s and then by new forms of industry and commerce since World War Two.

Table of Contents

Preface & Acknowledgments

Curaçao Timeline

Part One: Historical Overview

  1. From Cattle Ranch to Naval Base (1499-1648)

  2. The Dutch Emporium (1648-1790)

  3. Economic Stagnation and Decline (1790-1863)

  4. Free but Poor (1863-1915)

  5. Welcome Oil (1915-1940)

  6. The Post War Years (1940-1990)

Part Two: Major Economic Sectors

  1. International Trade

  2. Shipping

  3. Banking and Finance

  4. Small Scale Crafts and Industries

  5. Tourism

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Advisory Committee Members

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