Dr D.H. (Djoeke) van Netten
Early Modern History
Faculty of Humanities
Geschiedenis
Photographer: Greetje van der Werf
Visiting address
- Kloveniersburgwal 48
- Room number: C 0.04
Postal address
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Postbus 1610
1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Position
- Associate Professor (UHD) Early Modern History
Research Interests
- Early Modern History with a Focus on the Dutch Republic and its Worldwide Connections
- The Production, Dissemination and Reception of Books and Maps
- Secrecy and Openness
- Uncertainty
- The Production and Dissemination of Knowledge
- Dutch Overseas Companies (early companies, VOC and WIC)
- Maritime History, Maritime Knowledge
- Animal History, Human-Animal Encounters
- (Early Modern) Cartography of Oceans, Coastlines and Ice
- Gender at Sea
- Early Modern Travel and Travel Journals
- "The Dutch Golden Age" (with quotation marks)
- Jacob van Heemskerck
Education, previous positions, fellowships, other great things
- Coordinator Research Group Early Modern Mobilities (since 2019)
- Museum guide, National Maritime Museum Amsterdam (since 2011)
- Board Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letteren (since 2019)
- Editor Special Issue Journal for the History of Knowledge (2024)
- Guest Editor-in-Chief Yearbook for Women's History (2022)
- Board Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis (since 2021)
- Editorial Board Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis (since 2016)
- Colloquium-grant, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (2022)
- Vice-director Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (2021)
- Chairperson Organization Scientiae Conference (Amsterdam virtual 2020)
- Guest Curator National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam (2017)
- NWO (Dutch Organization of Scientific Research) Veni Research Fellow (2015-2019)
- Editorial Board Yearbook for Dutch Book History (2012-2019)
- Visiting Lecturer (Erasmus+ programme), University of Reading (October 2014)
- PhD ICOG/History, University of Groningen (2012)
- Dr Ernst Crone Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum Amsterdam (2010-2011)
- Lecturer History, University of Amsterdam (2009-2012)
- Lecturer History / International Relations, University of Groningen (2008-2009)
- MA (doctoraal) History, University of Groningen (cum laude) (2004)
- Research Fellow Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (2003)
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Teaching
Courses 2024/2025
* BA Geschiedenis: Wereldgeschiedenis (World History)
* BA Global Arts, Culture, Politics: World Views
* MA Militaire Geschiedenis. De Verbeelding van Oorlog (Military History. The Imagination of War)
I am available for thesis supervision and tutorials regarding the Early Modern history of science/knowledge, secrecy, "Dutch Golden Age", travel, cartography, maritime history, book history, animal history.
Do not hesitate to email me and discuss plans and ideas.
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Publications
- refereed (9)
- academic (6)
- professional (6)
- popular scientific (4)
- recognitions (35)
- supervised theses (1)
- doctoral thesis (1)
2022
- van Netten, D. (2022). Mapping travel knowledge: The use of maps on the first Dutch voyages to Asia. In A. L. Brock, G. van Meersbergen, & E. Smith (Eds.), Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World (pp. 23-42). (Hakluyt Society Studies in the History of Travel). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003195573-2 [details]
2021
van Netten, D. (2021). Spaces on ships: Secrecy and privacy in the Dutch East India Companies. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 18(3), 107-124. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.52024/tseg.11044 [details]
2020
- van Netten, D. (2020). Sailing and secrecy: Information control and power in Dutch overseas companies in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. In I. Nijenhuis, M. van Faassen, R. Sluijter, J. Gijsenbergh, & W. de Jong (Eds.), Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach (pp. 157-171). (Routledge Approaches to History ; Vol. 9). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429438738-10 [details]
- van Netten, D. (2020). The New World Map and the Old: The Moving Narrative of Joan Blaeu’s Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula (1648). In Z. Segal, & B. Vannieuwenhuyze (Eds.), Motion in maps, maps in motion: Mapping stories and movement through time (pp. 33-56). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv17ppcw7.5, https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542956.002, https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048542956-004, https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463721103 [details]
- van Netten, D. (2020). The Richest Country in the World: Dutch Knowledge of China and Cathay and How to Get There in the 1590s. In T. Weststeijn (Ed.), Foreign devils and philosophers: Cultural encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch and other Europeans, 1590-1800 (pp. 24-56). (East and West; Vol. 6). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004418929_003 [details]
2016
- Krom, T., & van Netten, D. (2016). Geheymenissen en secreten: Denkbeelden over geheimhouding in Nederlandse pamfletten uit 1672. Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 23, 192-207. [details]
2015
- van Netten, D. (2015). Propaganda, public and pamphlets in the Dutch Golden Age - What else is new? Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 22, 208-221, 232-233. [details]
2012
- van Netten, D. (2012). Astronomia instaurata? The third edition of Copernicus's De Revolutionibus (Amsterdam, 1617). Journal for the History of Astronomy, 43(1), 75-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/002182861204300105 [details]
2008
- van Netten, D., & de Bruycker, A. (2008). 'Zodat mijn verbanning tegelijk jouw straf is.' Bloei, verval en migratie van wetenschap in de Republiek en de Spaanse Nederlanden. Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 123(1), 3-30. https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.6732
2022
- van Netten, D., Buchheim, E., Carmichael, S., van den Elzen, S., Hoegen, E., Kamphuis, K., Reichgelt, M., Schulte Nordholt, L., Shahid, S., Wyffels, H., & van der Zande, I. (Eds.) (2022). Gender at sea. (Yearbook of Women's History/Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis; No. 41). Verloren. [details]
2016
- van Netten, D. H. (2016). 'Nicolaus Mulerius’, ‘Petrejus Tiara’ and ‘Menelaus Winsemius'. In Nieuwe Encyclopedie van Fryslân Gorredijk: Uitgeverij Bornmeer.
2014
- van Netten, D. (2014). Koopman in kennis: de uitgever Willem Jansz Blaeu in de geleerde wereld (1571-1638). (Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse boekhandel). Walburg Pers. http://www.walburgpers.nl/winkel/boekgeschiedenis-series/koopman/ [details]
2012
- Dijkstra, A., Jensma, G., & van Netten, D. (2012). Adriaan Metius: wiskunde als familiebedrijf. In A. Dijkstra, G. Jensma, D. van Netten, & P. van Tuinen (Eds.), Wiskunde als familiebedrijf: Menelaus Winsemius' lijkrede op Adriaan Metius (1571-1635): bezorgd, vertaald en ingeleid (pp. 8-53). (E.H. Waterbolk-reeks; No. [4]). Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. https://www.academia.edu/3036733/_With_Arjen_Dijkstra_Piter_van_Tuinen_and_Djoeke_van_Netten_Wiskunde_als_familiebedrijf._Menelaus_Winsemius_lijkrede_op_Adriaan_Metius_1571-1635_._E.H._Waterbolk-reeks_4_Groningen_Rijksuniversiteit_Groningen_2012_ [details]
2011
- van Netten, D. (2011). Een boek als carrièrevehikel: de zeemansgidsen van Blaeu. Zeventiende Eeuw, 27(2), 214-231. http://www.persistent-identifier.nl?identifier=URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1-112397 [details]
2010
- van Netten, D. (2010). Nicolaus Mulerius (1564-1630): een Groninger geleerde in de discussies van zijn tijd. (Biografieën van Groningse hoogleraren). Barkhuis. http://www.barkhuis.nl/product_info.php?products_id=108 [details]
2023
- van Netten, D. (2023). Beren en vossen in de vroegmoderne boekdrukkunst. In T. Dijkstra, R. Jagersma, & L. Kuitert (Eds.), Onder druk wordt alles chaos: Boekgeschiedenissen tussen orde en wanorde (pp. 68-75). Uitgeverij Armorica. [details]
- Downloads
- Beren en vossen in de vroegmoderne boekdrukkunst (embargo until 10 October 2026)
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2019
2016
- van Netten, D. (2016). [Review of: J. van Goor (2015) Jan Pieterszoon Coen [1587-1629]: koopman-koning in Azië]. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 131(2), Article review 26. https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10209 [details]
- van Netten, D. (2016). [Review of: T. Brook (2013) Mr. Selden’s map of China: the spice trade, a lost chart and the South China Sea]. Isis, 107(2), 392-393. https://doi.org/10.1086/687063 [details]
2015
- van Netten, D. (2015). [Review of: D. Margócsy (2014) Commercial Visions : Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age]. Isis, 106(4), 922-924. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26455532 [details]
2012
- van Netten, D. (2012). Bibliografie van Adriaan Metius. In A. Dijkstra, G. Jensma, D. van Netten, & P. van Tuinen (Eds.), Wiskunde als familiebedrijf: Menelaus Winsemius' lijkrede op Adriaan Metius (1571-1635): bezorgd, vertaald en ingeleid (pp. 204-208). (E.H. Waterbolk-reeks; No. [4]). Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. https://www.academia.edu/3036733/_With_Arjen_Dijkstra_Piter_van_Tuinen_and_Djoeke_van_Netten_Wiskunde_als_familiebedrijf._Menelaus_Winsemius_lijkrede_op_Adriaan_Metius_1571-1635_._E.H._Waterbolk-reeks_4_Groningen_Rijksuniversiteit_Groningen_2012_ [details]
2021
- van Netten, D. H. (Author), & van Duijnen, M. (Author). (2021). Een meisje loos?. Web publication or website https://www.historici.nl/dossier-gender-en-arbeid-een-meisje-loos/?type=bijdrage
2018
- van Netten, D. (2018). 1594: Vele wegen naar Azië. In L. Heerma van Voss, M. 't Hart, K. Davids, K. Fatah-Black, L. Lucassen, & J. Touwen (Eds.), Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (pp. 201-206). Amsterdam: Ambo|Anthos. [details]
- van Netten, D. H. (2018). Aankoop van nationaal belang. Museumdirecteur vindt geldschieters voor unieke wereldkaart. Ons Amsterdam, 70(7/8), 52-55.
2017
- van Netten, D. H. (2017). De wereld volgens Blaeu. Geschiedenis Magazine, 52-53.
Prize / grant
- van Netten, D. (2017). ASH Valorisation Award.
Talk / presentation
- van Netten, D. (speaker) & Vannieuwenhuyze, B. (speaker) (28-10-2023). Wereldkaarten en wereldbeeld, Nacht van de Geschiedenis, Amsterdam.
- van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (15-6-2021). Issues of (Dutch) pilot guides 1584-ca.1700, RUTTER-project, Lisbon.
- van Netten, D. (keynote speaker) (29-4-2021). The landscape and the ship. Mapping a seventeenth-century naval battle, Maps and society series, London.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (20-4-2021). Speaking about maps. Text and images in atlases and pilot guides, RSA Virtual 2021.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (15-1-2021). Sea-mirrors. How early english pilot guides show what maps were and how they were used, Maps and mapping, Paris.
- van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (6-11-2020). The order between land and sea and the use of colours, Maps and colours, Hamburg.
- van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (4-3-2020). Magic Maps. Blaeu's disenchanting cartography and some reenchantment, Farewell Conference Klaas van Berkel, Groningen.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (14-12-2019). Land and/or sea in text and image, Lines on a map, London.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (6-9-2019). BorderLInes. Straddling land and sea in early modern atlases, Rethinking power in maritime encounters, Leiden.
- van Netten, D. (keynote speaker) (14-7-2019). Reading maps in golden age Amsterdam and beyond, The International Conference on the History of Cartography, Amsterdam.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (4-6-2019). Knowledge communication and secrecy on Dutch East India ships, Scientiae 2019, Belfast, Belfast.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (10-4-2019). "Secrets" and secrecy in the Dutch East India Company, Secrecy and openness in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, New York.
- van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (21-3-2019). Secrecy and privacy in the Dutch context. With a case study of ships, PRIVACY-project , Copenhagen.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (8-3-2019). Geheimen van de VOC, Geschiedenis Magazine LIVE-dag, Utrecht.
- van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (7-12-2018). How to present a sea-battle. Newsprints and nachleben of the Battle at Gibraltar (1607), The battlefield after the battle, Lille.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (16-11-2018). Old maps on old maps. Early modern history of cartography, Making of the Humanities VII, Amsterdam.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (27-9-2018). To publish or not to publish, Isaac Beeckman in Context: Science, the Arts, and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic, Middelburg.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (19-7-2018). Maps and Navigation. On the Use of Maps during the Early Dutch Voyages to the East, ICHG 2018 Warsaw, warsaw.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (23-6-2018). The Company resorts to Print. The secret and the public in a pamphlet war regarding the Dutch East India Company (1622-1625), 11th St Andrews Book Conference 'Print and Power, St Andrews.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (1-6-2018). Secrets in the Dutch Golden Age and Where to Find Them, Low Countries History Seminar, London, Institute of Historical Research.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (1-3-2018). Lost on the map, Forgetting Knowledge, Berlin.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (24-11-2017). Secret instructions, secret resolutions, secret committees, and other not so secret secrecy in the VOC-archive, Symposium Rethinking the VOC.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (12-9-2017). Maps on ships and ships on maps, Hakluyt Society Symposium.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (26-8-2017). Schrijven over geheimen. De paradox van weten en niet weten, Congres Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw 2017: Geheime Praktijken.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (24-6-2017). Maps in the museum. A 21st century analysis of 20th century acquisition of 17th century geographical knowledge, Zevende Tweejaarlijke Gewina-conferentie (Woudschoten VII), Zeist.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (6-2017). Blaeu's wereld in kaart, Vrije Academie.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (21-4-2017). Treasures, lights and mirrors. How to use an early modern pilot guide?, Scientiae 2017, Padua.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (31-3-2017). Counterfeiting the World. Truth and secrecy surrounding the first Dutch travels to the East, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (8-9-2016). A certain navigation to China and Cathay, Entangled Cultural Histories. Encounters between China 1600-1900, Shanghai.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (7-7-2016). Knowledge Control in the Dutch East India Company, Scientiae 2016, Oxford, Oxford.
- van Netten, D. (speaker) (8-4-2016). Collecting and guarding information just before and after the establishment of the Dutch East India Company (1602), Treasuries of Knowledge, Cambridge.
Others
- van Netten, D. (organiser) (9-6-2021 - 12-6-2021). Scientiae 2021, (virtual) Amsterdam, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- van Gemert, L. (organiser) & van Netten, D. H. (chair) (10-4-2018). ACSGA Colloquium, Amsterdam. Blaeu's wereld in kaart (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://acsga.uva.nl/shared/subsites/amsterdam-centre-for-the-study-of-the-golden-age/nl/evenementen/evenementen/2018/04/bezoek-aan-scheepvaa…
- van Netten, D. (participant) (26-8-2017). Congres Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw 2017: Geheime Praktijken (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
2012
- van Netten, D. H. (2012). Koopman in kennis. De uitgever Willem Jansz Blaeu (1571-1638) in de geleerde wereld van zijn tijd.
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Ancillary activities
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Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
Bestuurslid, jury fellowship -
VNVNG
Bestuurslid
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Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
van Netten, D. (2021). Spaces on ships: Secrecy and privacy in the Dutch East India Companies. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 18(3), 107-124. Advance online publication.