The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic
The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic

Author: Oscar Gelderblom

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1317020774

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In 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 rise of the Dutch Republic a history.- v. 6-11. History of the United Netherlands; from the death of William the Silent to the twelve years' truce, 1609, v. 1. 1584-1585, v. 2. 1585-1587, v. 3. 1587-1590, v. 4. 1590-1598, v. 5. 1598-1605, v. 6. 1605-1609.- v. 12-14. The life and death of John of Barneveldt, advocate of Holland; with a view of the primary causes and movements of the thirty years' war.- v. 15-17. The correspondence of John Lothrop Motley ... edited by George William
The rise of the Dutch Republic a history.- v. 6-11. History of the United Netherlands; from the death of William the Silent to the twelve years' truce, 1609, v. 1. 1584-1585, v. 2. 1585-1587, v. 3. 1587-1590, v. 4. 1590-1598, v. 5. 1598-1605, v. 6. 1605-1609.- v. 12-14. The life and death of John of Barneveldt, advocate of Holland; with a view of the primary causes and movements of the thirty years' war.- v. 15-17. The correspondence of John Lothrop Motley ... edited by George William

Author: John Lothrop Motley

Publisher:

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13:

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Commonwealth Principles
Commonwealth Principles

Author: Jonathan Scott

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-18

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1139456709

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The republican writing of the English revolution has attracted a major scholarly literature. Yet there has been no single treatment of the subject as a whole, nor has it been adequately related to the larger upheaval from which it emerged, or to the larger body of radical thought of which it became the most influential component. Commonwealth Principles addresses these needs, and Jonathan Scott goes beyond existing accounts organized around a single key concept (whether constitutional, linguistic or moral) or author (usually James Harrington) to analyse this body of writing in full context. Linking various social, political and intellectual agendas Professor Scott explains why, when classical republicanism came to England, it did so in the moral service of an explicitly religious revolution. The resulting ideology hinged not upon political language, or constitutional form, but Christian humanist moral philosophy applied in the practical context of an attempted radical reformation of manners.

The Dutch Republic
The Dutch Republic

Author: Jonathan Irvine Israel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1231

ISBN-13: 9780198207344

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The Dutch Golden Age, known for its renowned artists and writers, was also remarkable for its immense impact on the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. Israel gives the definitive account of the emergence of the United Provinces as a great power, its subsequent decline in the 18th century, and the changing relationship between the northern Netherlands and the south, which was to develop into modern Belgium. 32 color plates.