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The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism - The Global Reach of the Dutch Arms Trade, Warfare and Mercenaries in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism - The Global Reach of the Dutch Arms Trade, Warfare and Mercenaries in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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This book shows how the Dutch accumulation of great wealth was
closely linked to their involvement in warfare. By charting Dutch
activity across the globe, it explores Dutch participation in the
international arms trade, and in wars both at home and abroad. In
doing so, it ponders the issue of how capitalism has often
historically thrived best when its practitioners are ruthless and
ignore the human cost of their search for riches. This complicates
the traditional Marxist understanding of capitalists as
middle-class exploiters in arguing for a much greater agency among
lower-class Dutch soldiers and sailors in their efforts to benefit
from skills that were in high demand.
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