A Financial History of the Netherlands

A Financial History of the Netherlands

Author: Marjolein C. 't Hart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-09-11

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0521581613

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Overview of the financial history of the Netherlands from the sixteenth century onwards.


A Dictionary of World History

A Dictionary of World History

Author: Anne Kerr

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-05-14

Total Pages: 1341

ISBN-13: 0191044784

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This wide-ranging dictionary contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. Over 4,000 clear, concise entries include biographies of key figures in world history (living and dead), separate entries for every country in the world (summarising key historical events), and in-depth entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and major conflicts and events and their after-effects. For this new edition, existing entries have been revised and updated to reflect the very latest global events including changes in leadership, wars, political situations, and the statistical information given for each country (population counts, currency, languages, religions). New entries have been included for key figures who have recently come to prominence and world events. The book also contains twenty-five detailed maps linked to key historical events and topics. These include the African slave trade, the Black Death, and the Normandy campaign. Also included are over 200 country maps. The dictionary is enhanced by entry-level web links which are accessed via a dedicated companion website. Encyclopedic in scope, this ambitious A to Z provides an excellent overview of world history both for students and anyone with an interest in the subject.


Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age

Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age

Author: R. Po-Chia Hsia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1139433903

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Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe, despite being committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church. Professors R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the US, the UK and the Netherlands to probe the history and myth of this Dutch tradition of religious tolerance. This 2002 collection of outstanding essays reconsiders and revises contemporary views of Dutch tolerance. Taken as a whole, the volume's innovative scholarship offers unexpected insights into this important topic in religious and cultural history.


Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic

Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic

Author: Esther van Raamsdonk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-13

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1000171868

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The tumultuous relations between Britain and the United Provinces in the seventeenth century provide the backdrop to this book, striking new ground as its transnational framework permits an overview of their intertwined culture, politics, trade, intellectual exchange, and religious debate. How the English and Dutch understood each other is coloured by these factors, and revealed through an imagological method, charting the myriad uses of stereotypes in different genres and contexts. The discussion is anchored in a specific context through the lives and works of John Milton and Andrew Marvell, whose complex connections with Dutch people and society are investigated. As well as turning overdue attention to neglected Dutch writers of the period, the book creates new possibilities for reading Milton and Marvell as not merely English, but European poets.


Public Finance of the Dutch Republic in Comparative Perspective

Public Finance of the Dutch Republic in Comparative Perspective

Author: Wantje Fritschy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 9004341285

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This study offers the first complete overview of the remarkable public finances of the Dutch Republic of the United Provinces. Wantje Fritschy has analysed the development and structure of its public revenue and expenditure. She argues that a ‘tax revolution’ and the ‘fiscal resilience’ of the provinces together were more important for its surprising performance than Holland’s public debt alone, and the institutional and economic characteristics of its ‘urban system’ were more important than wealth due to foreign trade. Comparisons with the fiscal systems of three more centralized states - the Venetian Republic, Britain and the Ottoman Empire - underline the crucial importance of long-term ‘urbanization trajectories’ in understanding early-modern fiscal performance. It was not because it was federal that the Dutch Republic collapsed.


Armies of the Sixteenth Century: The armies of England, Scotland, Ireland, the United Provinces, and the Spanish Netherlands, 1487-1609

Armies of the Sixteenth Century: The armies of England, Scotland, Ireland, the United Provinces, and the Spanish Netherlands, 1487-1609

Author: Ian Heath

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781901543001

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During the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I England was involved in a constant series of conflicts with Ireland and Scotland, and frequently sent expeditions to the territories now known as Belgium and the Netherlands to keep the Spanish and French at bay.


The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age

The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age

Author: Helmer J. Helmers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1316780325

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During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power in Europe, with global trading interests. It nurtured some of the period's greatest luminaries, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Descartes and Spinoza. Long celebrated for its religious tolerance, artistic innovation and economic modernity, the United Provinces of the Netherlands also became known for their involvement with slavery and military repression in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. This Companion provides a compelling overview of the best scholarship on this much debated era, written by a wide range of experts in the field. Unique in its balanced treatment of global, political, socio-economic, literary, artistic, religious, and intellectual history, its nineteen chapters offer an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the world of the Dutch Golden Age.