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Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age

The Political Thought of Johan & Pieter de la Court

By: Arthur Weststeijn

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Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age

The Political Thought of Johan & Pieter de la Court

By: Arthur Weststeijn

This book is the first comprehensive study of the radical political thought of the brothers Johan and Pieter de la Court, two eminent theorists from the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic who played a pivotal role in the rise of commercial republicanism.

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414

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BRILL

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9004221395

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9789004221390

The Bookshop of the World

Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

By: Andrew Pettegree,Arthur der Weduwen

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Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

By: Andrew Pettegree,Arthur der Weduwen

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world’s greatest bibliophiles. The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century: books. In this fascinating account, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen show how the Dutch produced many more books than pictures and bought and owned more books per capita than any other part of Europe. Key innovations in marketing, book auctions, and newspaper advertising brought stability to a market where elsewhere publishers faced bankruptcy, and created a population uniquely well-informed and politically engaged. This book tells for the first time the remarkable story of the Dutch conquest of the European book world and shows the true extent to which these pious, prosperous, quarrelsome, and generous people were shaped by what they read. “Book history at its best.” —Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books “Compelling and impressive.” —THES (Book of the Week) “An instant classic on Dutch book history.” —BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review

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365

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Yale University Press

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0300245297

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9780300245295

State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age

By: Arthur der Weduwen

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State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age

By: Arthur der Weduwen

State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands. Der Weduwen provides an in-depth study of early modern state communication: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with political opponents. These communication strategies, including proclamations, the use of town criers, and the printing and affixing of hundreds of thousands of edicts, underpinned the political stability of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Based on systematic research in thirty-two Dutch archives, this book demonstrates for the first time how the wealthiest, most literate, and most politically participatory state of early modern Europe was shaped by the communication of political information. It makes a decisive case for the importance of communication to the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the extent to which early modern authorities relied on the active consent of their subjects to legitimise their government.

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Oxford University Press

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0198926626

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9780198926627

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Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age

Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age

The Bookshop of the World

The Bookshop of the World

State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age

State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age

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