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The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

The Golden Age

By: Maarten Prak

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The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

The Golden Age

By: Maarten Prak

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip to the experiences of immigrants and Jews in Dutch society, the paintings of Vermeer and Rembrandt, and the ideas of Spinoza. He places the Dutch 'miracle' in a European context, examining the Golden Age both as the product of its own past and as the harbinger of a more modern, industrialised and enlightened society. A fascinating and accessible study, this 2005 book will prove invaluable reading to anyone interested in Dutch history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521843529

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9780521843522

Citizens without Nations

Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789

By: Maarten Prak

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Citizens without Nations

Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789

By: Maarten Prak

Examines how urban citizenship gave many people a real stake in their own communities, even before the rise of modern democracy.

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445

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Cambridge University Press

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1107104033

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9781107104037

Pioneers of Capitalism

The Netherlands 1000–1800

By: Maarten Prak,Jan Luiten van Zanden

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Pioneers of Capitalism

The Netherlands 1000–1800

By: Maarten Prak,Jan Luiten van Zanden

How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalism The Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic growth. Pioneers of Capitalism examines the formal and informal institutions in the Netherlands that made this economic miracle possible, providing a groundbreaking new history of the emergence and early development of capitalism. Drawing on the latest quantitative theories in economic research, Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden show how Dutch cities, corporations, guilds, commons, and other private and semipublic organizations provided safeguards for market transactions in the state’s absence. Informal institutions developed in the Netherlands long before the state created public safeguards for economic activity. Prak and van Zanden argue that, in the Netherlands itself, capitalism emerged within a robust civil society that constrained and counterbalanced its centrifugal forces, but that an unrestrained capitalism ruled in the overseas territories. Rather than collapsing under unrestricted greed, the Dutch economy flourished, but prosperity at home came at the price of slavery and other dire consequences for people outside Europe. Pioneers of Capitalism offers a panoramic account of the early history of capitalism, revealing how a small region of medieval Europe transformed itself into a powerhouse of sustained economic growth, and changed the world in the process.

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280

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Princeton University Press

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069124233X

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9780691242330

Book's by Maarten Roy Prak

The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

Citizens without Nations

Citizens without Nations

Pioneers of Capitalism

Pioneers of Capitalism

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