Download PDF by Maarten Prak,Diane Webb: The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden

By Maarten Prak,Diane Webb

The Dutch are 'the envy of a few, the phobia of others, and the beauty of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak bargains a full of life and leading edge historical past of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, financial and cultural heritage via chapters that diversity from the advent of the tulip to the reports of immigrants and Jews in Dutch society, the work of Vermeer and Rembrandt, and the guidelines of Spinoza. He locations the Dutch 'miracle' in a eu context, studying the Golden Age either because the made from its personal earlier and because the harbinger of a extra glossy, industrialised and enlightened society. a desirable and obtainable learn, this 2005 ebook will turn out useful examining to someone attracted to Dutch history.

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