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Product details
- ISBN 9780198207344
- Weight: 1502g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The `Dutch Golden Age', the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in the history of the world. In this book, Jonathan Israel gives the definitive account of the emergence of the United Provinces as a great power, and explains the subsequent decline in the eighteenth century. He places the thought, politics, religion, and social developments of the Golden Age in their broad context, and examines the changing relationship between the northern Netherlands and the south, which was to develop into modern Belgium.
One of the principal aims of the book is to counter the oversimplification which characterizes so much history writing today, and to provide a new type of integrated history which draws the different dimensions of the discipline firmly together in strictly non-technical language. The result is a comprehensive and lucid account as useful to the reader primarily interested in artistic and cultural history as to the student who needs a survey of the Republic's institutions, class structure, and economic development. At the same time it will provide an invaluable aid to scholars interested in new research and new interpretations.
Jonathan Israel is the author of many well-respected books in European and particularly Dutch history, amongst them Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585-1740 (OUP, 1989), European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750 (OUP, 1985), The Dutch Republic in the Hispanic World, 1606-1661 (OUP, 1982), and joint editor of From Persecution to Toleration (OUP, 1991).
