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The chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers,
beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond
Europe in the early modern period / This book will appeal to all
those interested in the political systems of Early Modern Europe /
This book also covers numerous topics related to the building of
the 'Early Modern State', including standing armies, monetary and
financial policy, legal policy, as well as resistance and
opposition to these changes
This important volume traces the interaction between state and
capital in the organization of warfare in the Dutch Republic.
Combining deep theoretical insight with a thorough examination of
original source material Brandon provides a sweeping new
interpretation of the rise and fall of the Dutch Republic as a
hegemonic power within the early modern capitalist world-system.
A reassessment of the Anglo-Dutch wars of the second half of the
seventeenth century, demonstrating that the conflict was primarily
about trade. This book re-examines the history of Anglo-Dutch
conflict during the seventeenth century, of which the three wars of
1652-4, 1665-7 and 1672-4 were the most obvious manifestation.
Low-intensity conflict spanned a longer period. From 1618-19
hostilities in Asia between the Dutch and English East India
Companies added new elements of tension beyond earlier disputes
over the North Sea fisheries, merchant shipping and the cloth
trade. The emerging multilateral trades of the Atlantic world added
new challenges. This book integrates the European, Asian, American
and African dimensions of the Anglo-Dutch Wars in an authentically
global view. The role of the state receives special attention
during a period in which both countries are best understood as
'fiscal-naval states'. The significance of sea power is reflected
in the public history of the Anglo-Dutch wars, acknowledged in the
concluding chapters. The book includes important new research
findings and imaginative new thinking by leading historians of the
subject.
Colonial and post-colonial port cities in the Atlantic and Indian
Ocean regions brought together laboring populations of many
different backgrounds and statuses - legally free or semi-free
wage-laborers, soldiers, sailors, and the self-employed, indentured
servants, convicts, and slaves. From the seventeenth to the
nineteenth century the labor of these 'motley crews' made port
cities crucial hubs of the emerging capitalist world market and
centers of imperial infrastructure. The nine chapters in this
volume investigate the interaction between different groups of
laborers around the docks and the neighborhoods that stretched
behind them. How did the mixture of many different groups of
laborers shape patterns of work and life, authority and control,
exclusion and inclusion, group-competition and joint resistance?
What roles did gender, race and status play in maintaining
divisions or enabling solidarities? Together, the nine case studies
present a vibrant picture of social relations and working-class
cultures in port cities.
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Dutch Art in a Global Age
Christopher D. M. Atkins; Text written by Pepijn Brandon, Simona Di Nepi, Stephanie S Dickey, Michele L Frederick, …
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