The Familial State - Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)

The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The Familial State, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland's great families played in this dramatic history. She charts how family patriarchs—who were at the time both state-builders and merchant capitalists—shaped the first great wave of European colonialism, which in turn influenced European political development in innovative ways. On the basis of massive archival work, Adams arrives at a profoundly gendered reading of the family/power structure of the Dutch elite and their companies, in particular the VOC or Dutch East India Company. In the United Provinces, she finds the first example of the power structure that would dominate the transitional states of early modern Europe—the "familial state." This organizational structure is typified, in her view, by "paternal political rule and multiple arrangements among the family heads."

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Julia Adams
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	235
ISBN-13:	978-0-8014-7404-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic systems > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-8014-7404-3
Barcode:	9780801474040

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