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Tavern of two oceans: Alcohol, taxes and leases in the seventeenth-century Dutch world
Contree, 2015 The retail of alcohol was so central to the economy and society of the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that it earned the nickname “tavern of two oceans”.
Gerald Groenewald
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BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2012 This review article discusses recent publications by David Onnekink, Sophus Reinert, Gijs Rommelse, Jacob Soll, and Arthur Weststeijn from the perspective of the reception of Dutch economic and political thought in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ...
Martine Julia van Ittersum
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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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Bulletin KNOB, 1999 When the architects Jacob van Campen, Pieter Post and Philips Vingboons introduced classicism in the Dutch Republic in the thirties and forties of the seventeenth century, this architectural principle soon got anchored in the world of commissioners ...
Badeloch V.C.M. Noldus
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Networking in the Republic of Letters: Magliabechi and the Dutch Republic
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2022 Abstract The brokers who forge networks have exclusive access to diverse and innovative information. Hence, many histories of the Republic of Letters (1500–1800) stress the importance of brokers for the circulation and development of new ideas.
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Contree, 2016 A close relationship existed between the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State and the Republic of the Orange Free State during the existence of the latter in 1854-1902.
Piet Strauss
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Cultural and social history, 2019 Organised in the wake of disasters, early modern emergency rituals were intended to persuade God to waive further punishment. However, this article shows that these rituals were as much about communities as about God.
A. Duiveman
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Early Modern Low Countries, 2019 ‘It is a pity that not someone like Christina Leonora de Neufville found the time to take on that work’, translator and author Elizabeth Wolff stated when she set eyes on one of the Dutch translations of Voltaire’s Mahomet (1741) in October 1770. Wolff’s
L. V. Deinsen, Beatrijs Vanacker
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Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2023 The Dutch Golden Age is often referred to as a prime example of Dutch tolerance with regard to the ‘open’ policies towards migration and the harmonious co-existence of migrants with their local neighbours. Considering that, before 1800, migrants made up
Karlijn Luk, Samantha Sint Nicolaas
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A Letter’s Importance: The Spelling of Daka(h) (Deut. 23:2) and the Broadening of Western Sephardic Rabbinic Culture, 2019 The Portuguese community in the Dutch Republic carefully guarded the image it presented to the outside world. The parnassim and rabbis repeatedly reminded members to act with decorum and bom judesmo.
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
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