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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 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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Medicalising Electricity in the Dutch Republic, 1745-1789
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2022 This article sheds light on the processes and tactics used by eighteenth-century electricians in making medical electricity a legitimate remedy in the Dutch Republic.
Floris Winckel
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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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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.
Alie Lassche
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Women and Work in the Dutch Republic
Early Modern Low CountriesHistoriography on women and work focused for long on whether and how large-scale transformations – such as urbanisation, commercialisation, the rise of capitalism, the consumer revolution, industrialisation, and the ideal of domesticity – changed women ...
Ariadne Schmidt
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Performing the Many Roles of Queenship: Mary II as a Character in Dutch Songs
Royal Studies Journal, 2021 During Mary II’s reign (1689-1694), several dialogue songs were written and performed in the Dutch Republic that featured her as a named character. This article studies five songs in which the character of Mary plays a number of roles, including daughter,
Sonja Kleij
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Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2021 In this introductory text to the special issue Regulating Access: Privacy and the Private in Early Modern Dutch Contexts, Natália da Silva Perez argues that privacy can be a productive analytical lens to examine the social history of the Dutch Republic.
Natália Da Silva Perez
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New Perspectives on Early Modern Dutch Atlantic Slavery and Slave Trade
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2022 This Special Issue explores new routes in the economic historical research on the Dutch Atlantic history of slavery and slave trade. Each of its contributions tackles important blind spots that have continued to haunt Dutch economic history despite the ...
Matthias Van Rossum
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Early Modern Low Countries, 2023 This article examines the layered history of Japonse rokken, European silk production, and self-fashioning in Dutch-American portraiture. First imported from Japan and subsequently copied by European tailors, Japonse rokken became popular in the Dutch ...
Cynthia Kok
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