Eustatius
Eustatius names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Eustatius ST. Turks (1453)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ST. Turks (1453), by driving the learned Greeks from this city, gave a new impulse to letters in western Europe, which was carried onward by the invention of printing, and the Reformation. The discovery of America was followed by the temporary preponderance of Spain in Europe, and next of France. Subsequently Prussia and Russia gradually increased in territory and strength. The French Revolution (1789) and the Napoleonic wars had a profound effect on Europe, the dissolution of the old German empire being one of the results. Since then the most important events in European history have been the establishment of the independence of Greece; the disappearance of Poland as a separate state; the unification of Italy under Victor Emmanuel; the Franco-German war, resulting in the consolidation of Germany into an empire under the leadership of Prussia; the partial dismemberment of the Turkish empire, including the loss of Crete; the loss by Spain of her colonies in 1898; the absorption by England of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State in Africa in 1900. The political history of Europe from the beginning of the 20th century led directly to the World War. The seizure of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria in 1908, the Balkan Wars in 1912-1913, and the ever increasing militarism of Germany culminated in the great world struggle which began in August, 1914.
Eustatius ST., a Dutch island in the West Indies
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ST., a Dutch island in the West Indies, one of the Leeward Islands, 11 miles N. W. of St. Christopher's, pyramidal in form; area 8 square miles. Sugar, cotton, and maize are raised; but the principal production is tobacco. The climate is healthy, but earthquakes are frequent. Pop. about 1,300.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 described Sint Eustatius as a Dutch island of 8 square miles growing sugar, cotton and maize with tobacco as "the principal production," holding about 1,300 people. Commercial agriculture has since vanished entirely: the island's economy now rests on a large oil storage and transshipment terminal opened in the early 1980s on Tumble Down Dick Bay, plus scuba tourism drawn to the reefs and to the dormant volcano known as The Quill. Politically it is no longer a colonial dependency at all s — the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved in 2010 and Statia became a "special municipality" directly within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and in 2018 The Hague suspended the island council and imposed direct rule after finding severe misgovernment. The population is now roughly 3,000. (The other article printed here, ending with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the outbreak of war in 1914, is a stray fragment of a general survey of European history rather than anything to do with the island.)
Written for this edition, 2026.