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The Dutch Republic as a Bourgeois Society
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2010 Historians have often portrayed the Dutch Republic as the first ‘bourgeois’ society. What they had in mind was an early example of a society dominated by the sort of middle class that emerged in most other European countries after the French and ...
Maarten Prak
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The Greatest Right of Them All: The Debate on the Right to Petition in the Netherlands from the Dutch Republic to the Kingdom (c. 1750-1830). [PDF]
Eur Hist Q, 2017 Between 1750 and 1830 the Dutch state developed from an oligarchic republic into an enlightened autocratic monarchy via a brief experiment with representative democracy.
Oddens J.
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Marxism and the ‘Dutch Miracle’: The Dutch Republic and the Transition-Debate [PDF]
Historical Materialism, 2011 AbstractThe Dutch Republic holds a marginal position in the debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, despite its significance in the early stage of the development of global capitalism. While the positions of those Marxists who did consider the Dutch case range from seeing it as the first capitalist country to rejecting it as an ...
Pepijn Brandon
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The Dutch Republic and antiquity
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 1979 When Huizinga described the constitutional law of the Republic as ‘a peculiar structure’, he added that it was perhaps none the worse for the lack of a theoretical basis.1 The same conclusion was reached by Fockema Andreae on the basis of solid arguments, and I shall not contest it.
W. den Boer
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The Dutch Republic. Laboratory of the Scientific Revolution
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2010 Historians agree about the significance of the Scientific Revolution for the development of modern society; there is little agreement, however, as to the nature and the causes of this major shift in our perception of the natural world.
Klaas van Berkel
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, 2018 You could be excused for thinking that rather than an Englishman, Andrew Marvell might better have been born a Dutchman in the republic’s golden age – an era of religious toleration and commercial ascendance, of fiscal accountability and civic ...
Steven N. Zwicker
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The Kite of State. The Political Iconography of Kiting in the Dutch Republic 1600-1800
Early Modern Low Countries, 2017 This article analyses the iconography of kiting in the Dutch Republic and the role kites played in the conceptualization of political order and conflict. We argue that the introduction of the kite in Europe around 1600 provided authors and artists with a
Gert-Jan Johannes, Inger Leemans
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The ‘province’ of the Dutch Republic in the international Republic of Letters [PDF]
Renaissance Studies, 2021 Because the world of learning within the geography of the Dutch Republic wascharacterized by dynamic patterns of migration, and because only a small minority of scholars corresponded in Dutch, the question arises whether there was any such thing as a ‘Dutch’ province within the international learned community.
Llano, Manuel, van Miert, Dirk
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The Dutch Republic and the Spanish Slave Trade, 1580-1690
TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 2022 This article investigates the reason why groups of merchants operating from the Dutch Republic, particularly from Amsterdam, decided to take part in the exploitation of the Spanish Empire, through a very particular type of activity, that of the slave ...
C. Antunes, R. Negrón
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Popular Song Topics in the Dutch Republic
Early Modern Low Countries, 2022 This article investigates popular topics and topical fluctuations in a diachronic corpus of 43,772 Dutch songs, all written between 1550 and 1750, contained within the Dutch Song Database. Computational methods such as topic modelling are used to analyse
Alie Lassche
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