The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Margaret C. Jacob
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor review see: A.H. Huussen, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 107, nr. 1 (1994); p. 95-96.
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Republicans
Author: Wyger Velema
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-10-31
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9047431111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of being freeborn republicans bound the eighteenth-century Dutch together and constituted a significant part of their sense of national identity. Yet beneath this general label, many fundamental differences existed. Republicanism could stand for anti-monarchism, but it could also be a moral doctrine emphasizing the importance of the exercise of virtue, or refer to a certain way of life. During the revolutionary years of the late eighteenth century, it came to mean the permanent and active sovereignty of the people. This book explores the many varieties of eighteenth-century Dutch republicanism from a number of different methodological perspectives. It thereby significantly contributes to our understanding of a crucial period in the development of Dutch political thought.
Le Magasin de L'Univers
Author: Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9789004094932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1990 an international colloquium was held at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), under the title "'Le Magasin de l'Univers.' The Dutch Republic as the Centre of the European Book Trade." This volume brings together the twenty-two contributions presented at the conference by historians of the book from England, France, Switzerland, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Maarten Prak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-01-31
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1009240595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSubstantially revised second edition of the leading textbook on the Dutch Republic, including new chapters on language and literature, and slavery.
Money in the Dutch Republic
Author: Sebastian Felten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-03-10
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1009116479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dutch Republic was an important hub in the early modern world-economy, a place where hundreds of monies were used alongside each other. Sebastian Felten explores regional, European and global circuits of exchange by analysing everyday practices in Dutch cities and villages in the period 1600-1850. He reveals how for peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists, money was an everyday social technology that helped them to carve out a livelihood. With vivid examples of accounting and assaying practices, Felten offers a key to understanding the internal logic of early modern money. This book uses new archival evidence and an approach informed by the history of technology to show how plural currencies gave early modern users considerable agency. It explores how the move to uniform national currency limited this agency in the nineteenth century and thus helps us make sense of the new plurality of payments systems today.
The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic
Author: Oscar Gelderblom
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-24
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1317020774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first half of the seventeenth century the Dutch Republic emerged as one of Europe's leading maritime powers. The political and military leadership of this small country was based on large-scale borrowing from an increasingly wealthy middle class of merchants, manufacturers and regents This volume presents the first comprehensive account of the political economy of the Dutch republic from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Building on earlier scholarship and extensive new evidence it tackles two main issues: the effect of political revolution on property rights and public finance, and the ability of the nation to renegotiate issues of taxation and government borrowing in changing political circumstances. The essays in this volume chart the Republic's rise during the seventeenth century, and its subsequent decline as other European nations adopted the Dutch financial model and warfare bankrupted the state in the eighteenth century. By following the United Provinces's financial ability to respond to the changing national and international circumstances across a three-hundred year period, much can be learned not only about the Dutch experience, but the wider European implications as well.
The Emergence of Tolerance in the Dutch Republic
Author: Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9789004107687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fruit of a colloquium held in 1994 in the Netherlands, this collection of papers charts the emergence and vicissitudes of the concept of tolerance and its practical implications in the Dutch Republic, from the revolt against Spain in the sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century.
The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800
Author: Richard van Leeuwen
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789462988798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the reception of the 1001 Nights in eighteenth-century Dutch literature and scholarship, and the bibliographic history of its French-language editions and Dutch retranslations.
The Republican Alternative
Author: André Holenstein
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9089640053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.
The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750
Author: Wiep Van Bunge
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789004135871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains twelve major essays written by prominent historians from the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States on the early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, and more in particular on the main schools of thought that made up its philosophical profile.
