A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch Republic in European Perspective

by Edited by Karel Davids , Jan Lucassen

• ISBN13: 9780521158275
• ISBN10: 0521158273
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is the first to look at the history of the Dutch Republic from a comparative perspective, and provides a reappraisal of key issues in Dutch history from the late-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Contributors examine political, cultural, economic, and social developments in an interrelated way, and in doing so shed new light on historical developments in other parts of western and central Europe, including northern Italy, southern Germany, Flanders, and England.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
List of tables	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xii
Preface	p. xvii
List of abbreviations	p. xx
Introduction	p. 1
Similar problems, different outcomes; the Revolt of the Netherlands and the Wars of Religion in France	p. 26
The Dutch Republic: the urban impact upon politics	p. 57
Rulers, patricians and burghers: the Great and the Little traditions of urban revolt in the Low Countries	p. 99
The political culture of Germany and the Dutch Republic: similar roots, different results	p. 135
Britain and the Dutch Republic	p. 173
Church, state and people	p. 196
Literacy, trade and religion in the commercial centres of Europe	p. 229
Art and commerce in the Dutch Republic	p. 284
Access to credit and capital in the commercial centres of Europe	p. 303
Shirts of technological leadership in early modern Europe	p. 338
Labour and early modern economic development	p. 367
Early modern economic growth and the standard of living: did labour benefit from Holland's Golden Age?	p. 410
Conclusion	p. 438
Bibliography	p. 461
Subject index	p. 521
Index of personal names	p. 528
Index of geographical names	p. 533
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