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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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Normalisation and Ambivalence: Tobacco in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

Cultural and social history, 2021
This article questions the normalisation of tobacco use in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. The investigation shows that our present cultural ambivalence towards the intoxicant goes back to tobacco’s early introduction.
S. Snelders
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Money in the Dutch Republic

, 2022
The Dutch Republic was an important hub in the early modern world-economy, a place where hundreds of monies were used alongside each other. Sebastian Felten explores regional, European and global circuits of exchange by analysing everyday practices in ...
Sebastian Felten
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Gewetenloze kapitalisten, handige fiscalisten, strategische huisvaders of gedisciplineerde calvinisten? De Nederlandse Republiek als casestudy

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2006
J. Glete, War and the state in early modern Europe. Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as fiscal-military states, 1500-1660 L. Greenfeld, The spirit of capitalism. Nationalism and economic growth Ph.S. Gorski, The disciplinary revolution. Calvinism and
M. 't Hart
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English public diplomacy in the Dutch Republic, 1609–1619

, 2021
This article studies the strategies and effects of early modern public diplomacy. It does so by analysing how two English ambassadors stationed in the Dutch Republic during the Truce period (1609–1621), Ralph Winwood and Dudley Carleton, used print in ...
H. Helmers
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“Their power has been broken, the danger has passed.” Dutch newspaper coverage of the Berbice slave revolt, 1763

Early Modern Low Countries, 2018
In February 1763 one of the largest and longest slave revolts erupted in the Dutch colony of Berbice. As the majority of the white population fled, colonial authorities were left behind with few, and mostly ill soldiers, and in no time the insurgents ...
Esther Baakman
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Privacy and Social Spaces

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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Rediscovering Clusius. How Dutch Commerce Contributed to the Emergence of Modern Science

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2008
H.J. Cook, Matters of exchange. Commerce, medicine, and science in the Dutch Golden Age Rediscovering Clusius. How Dutch Commerce contributed to the Emergence of Modern Science In his highly stimulating book Matters of Exchange. Commerce, Medicine, and
Klaas van Berkel
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Dutch contexts of Cape burgher protests

Contree, 2015
This article seeks to emphasise the notion that the Cape settlement of the VOC period needs to be studied within the context of the Dutch world and not in isolation.
Teun Baartman
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