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Neptune and the Netherlands - State, Economy, and War at Sea in the Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Neptune and the Netherlands - State, Economy, and War at Sea in the Renaissance (Hardcover)
Series: History of Warfare, 23
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This book investigates how the rulers of the Habsburg world empire
developed and implemented a central maritime policy for the
Netherlands and appointed an admiral of the sea or admiral-general
for that purpose. It also explains why the Habsburgs were
eventually unable to gain control of the maritime affairs of the
Netherlands, in spite of the support of the powerful Burgundian
Lords of Veere, who occupied the central position of admiral from
1491 to 1558. From their power base on the island of Walcheren in
Zeeland, known as the key to the Netherlands at the time because of
its central location between Holland, Flanders, Antwerp and the
sea, they held an ideal vantage point for exercising the
admiralship. The result not only offers an illuminating insight
into the organisation of the war fleet, maritime trade and fishery,
privateering and prize law in the Habsburg Netherlands, but also
puts the success of the later Dutch Republic in a new perspective.
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