Maarten Prak (The Netherlands Universiteit Utrecht)

The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Dutch Republic was at the forefront of the remarkable developments which European societies underwent in the early modern era. This substantially revised edition of the leading textbook on the Dutch Republic explores the particular set of circumstances that allowed such a small country to become a world power in the seventeenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781009240567
• ISBN-10: 1009240560
• Artikelnr.: 64460122

Autorenporträt

Maarten Prak is Professor Emeritus of Social and Economic History at the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University. He has published extensively on Dutch social and economic history, the Dutch Golden Age, and is an expert on European craft history. His recent publications include Citizens Without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c. 1000-1789 (Cambridge, 2018) and the co-edited volume Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Enigma of the Republic
I. War without End: 1. Turbulent beginnings
2. A new country (1609-1650)
3. A world power (1650-1713)
4. The armed forces
II. Golden Age: Economy and Society: 5. A market economy
6. Worldwide trading network
7. Riches
8. Toil and trouble
III. Unity and Discord: Politics and Governance: 9. Community
10. The authorities
11. A dissonant chorus
12. Freedom against all odds
IV. An Urban Society: 13. The urban landscape
14. A lettered land
15. Religious pluralism
16. A new approach to science and philosophy
17. Paintings, paintings everywhere
Conclusion: the end of the golden age.