An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–1920
An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–1920

Author: Michael Wintle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-09-21

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 113942856X

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An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800–1920 provides a comprehensive account of Dutch history from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, examining population and health, the economy, and socio-political history. The Dutch experience in this period is fascinating and instructive: the country saw extremely rapid population growth, awesome death rates, staggering fertility, some of the fastest economic growth in the world, a uniquely large and efficient service sector, a vast and profitable overseas empire, characteristic 'pillarization', and relative tolerance. Michael Wintle also examines the lives of ordinary people: what they ate, how much they earned, what they thought about public affairs, and how they wooed and wed. This book will be of central importance to Dutch specialists, as well as European historians more generally.

An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800-1920
An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800-1920

Author: Michael J. Wintle

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 9780511046353

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This is a comprehensive account of Dutch history in the 'long' nineteenth century, examining population and health, the economy, and socio-political history. It is the only single-authored book available on this crucial period, and it will be of central importance to Dutch specialists, as well as European historians more generally.

The Economic History of The Netherlands 1914-1995
The Economic History of The Netherlands 1914-1995

Author: Jan L. van Zanden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-08

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1134749384

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Jan L. van Zanden in The Economic History of the Netherlands 1914-1995 answers these questions. In the first four chapters the long development of the economy is analysed in detail. Central to this part of the book are the rise (and decline) of managerial enterprise; the growth (and fall) of trade unions; and the expansion (and crisis) of the welfare state. The particular Dutch features of these institutional changes are highlighted. The second part of the book deals with different periods of growth (from 1914-1929, and 1950-1973), and relative stagnation (1929-1950, and 1973-1995). Moreover, van Zanden examines the role the Netherlands played in the process of European integration, and gives an explanation of the success of the 'Dutch job machine' in the 1980s and 1990s.

Pioneers of Capitalism
Pioneers of Capitalism

Author: Maarten Prak

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2024-06-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 069124233X

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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.