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A Financial History of the Netherlands
Overview of the financial history of the Netherlands from the sixteenth century onwards.
The Dutch Wars of Independence
In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in establishing their independence through their eighty years struggle with Spain - one of the most remarkable achievements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other rebellions troubled mighty powers of this epoch, but none resulted in the establishment of an independent, republican state. This book: tells the story of the Eighty Years War and its aftermath, including the three Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Guerre de Hollande (1570-1680). explores the interrelation between war, economy and society, explaining how the Dutch could turn their wars into commercial successes. illustrates how war could trig...
Humour and Social Protest
The seventeen essays in this book examine the power of humour in framing social and political protest.
Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History
Throughout all ages, the activities of mankind have weighed heavily upon the environment. In turn, changes in that environment have favoured the rise of certain social groups and limited the actions of others. Despite this, environmental history has remained a 'blind spot' for most social and economic historians. This is to be regretted, as the various and unequal effects of environmental change often explain the strengths and weaknesses of certain social groups, irrespective of their being defined along the lines of class, gender and ethnicity. This volume brings together the expertise of social and environmental historians in an effort to assess the extent to which transnational agents changed socioecological space as a consequence of globalization since the Late Middle Ages.
Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe
Comparative urban history examines early modern economic and cultural achievements in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London.
The Rise of Fiscal States
Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.
Money in the Dutch Republic
Offers a distinctive history of money as an everyday social technology in the Dutch Republic from 1600 to 1850.
Town and Country in Europe, 1300-1800
This 2001 book was the first survey of relations between town and country across Europe between 1300 and 1800.
The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern state" once held. While war pushed the boundaries of the emerging fiscal military states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rulers remained highly dependent on negotiations with competing elite groups and the private networks of contractors and financial intermediaries. Attempts to increase control over subjects often resulted in popular resistance, that in their turn set limits to and influenced the direction of the development of state institutions. Written in honour of the leading historian of war and state formation in the early modern Low Countries, Marjolein 't Hart, the chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers, beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond Europe in the early modern period.
