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2020
This chapter explores the cross-cultural connections of a community of English and Scottish exiles who fled to the Dutch Republic, c.1575–1688. Among them were Pilgrims and Puritans, preachers-turned-physicians, dozens of dissenting divines, Fifth Monarchists (Dr Edward Richardson), oft-imprisoned Quakers (William Penn), tortured Presbyterians (William
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This chapter explores the cross-cultural connections of a community of English and Scottish exiles who fled to the Dutch Republic, c.1575–1688. Among them were Pilgrims and Puritans, preachers-turned-physicians, dozens of dissenting divines, Fifth Monarchists (Dr Edward Richardson), oft-imprisoned Quakers (William Penn), tortured Presbyterians (William
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1993
The contribution of the Netherlands to the history of music is less conspicuous than those of its larger neighbours — Germany, France and England. Its chief period of fame was during the later fifteenth century and the sixteenth, when five generations of Netherlands composers were responsible for developing the Renaissance polyphonic style that reached
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The contribution of the Netherlands to the history of music is less conspicuous than those of its larger neighbours — Germany, France and England. Its chief period of fame was during the later fifteenth century and the sixteenth, when five generations of Netherlands composers were responsible for developing the Renaissance polyphonic style that reached
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1995
Abstract The `Dutch Golden Age’, the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in the history of the world. In this
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Abstract The `Dutch Golden Age’, the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in the history of the world. In this
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Military Power and the Dutch Republic
2021In 1667 the Dutch Republic was at the height of its military and mercantile might. A century and a half later, little of that glory remained as Napoleon wiped the country off the political map. Military Power and the Dutch Republic explores the often overlooked role of the military in the Republic’s remarkable economic rise in the seventeenth century ...
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The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
2023Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest nations on earth.
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2008
Although Reysen’s title page announces that it features 26 years of Struys’s travels, it describes in fact no more than the ten years that the sailmaker spent in faraway regions. By the time the book was published its alleged author had lived for four-fifths of his almost fifty years in the Dutch Republic.
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Although Reysen’s title page announces that it features 26 years of Struys’s travels, it describes in fact no more than the ten years that the sailmaker spent in faraway regions. By the time the book was published its alleged author had lived for four-fifths of his almost fifty years in the Dutch Republic.
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2004
Haitsma Mulier (1987) is one of several commentators who quite confidently use the term ‘Dutch Republic’ to describe the northern Netherlands before 1648, whereas Kossmann (1991) accurately comments that the term was not much used at this time in the United Provinces, and that it misdefines how the northern Netherlanders regarded themselves. The United
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Haitsma Mulier (1987) is one of several commentators who quite confidently use the term ‘Dutch Republic’ to describe the northern Netherlands before 1648, whereas Kossmann (1991) accurately comments that the term was not much used at this time in the United Provinces, and that it misdefines how the northern Netherlanders regarded themselves. The United
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Financial Hegemony: Dutch Republic
2016We have been examining the theory of instability in financial markets. Instability arises from the time dimension in financial markets—which allows for both current rents and future liquidity, in valuing the capital assets traded in a market. Since the value of a capital asset continues over time from purchase at time T1 to sale at T2, profitability ...
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Dutch Republic: 17th-18th Centuries
2014Small Jewish communities began to appear soon after the establishment of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, which came into being following the Union of Utrecht in 1588. Most of these were established in the main province of Holland in its major cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague.
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THE ANGLO-DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1649–53
2020This chapter covers the period between the years 1649 and 1653. It was during this time when England embarked on a revolution — the real ‘first modern revolution’ — with profound and permanent consequences. This would involve a jarring process of change, over two generations, in the course of which the institutions, administration, power-structures ...
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