OpenStax
Open Stax: Challenges to Spain's Supremacy
This section of a chapter on "Early Globalization" identifies regions where the English, French, and Dutch explored and established settlements, describes the differences among the early colonies, and explains the role of the American...
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Nieuw Amsterdam
This site lists the reasons why the Dutch trading companies were slower in colonization than the other New World countries.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: New Netherland
This article looks at the discovery and colonization of New Netherlands by the Dutch in 1609 and 1626 respectively.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Mauritius: History
Read the interesting history of Mauritius from its colonization by the Dutch in the 17th century to its independence in 1968. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
Mount Holyoke College
Mt. Holyoke: Extent of Colonialism
A chart of statistics concerning European colonialism towards the end of the imperialist era.