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. 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.
Softcover, xxx+1231pp., 16x23,5cm., illustr. and maps in b/w., in good condition (covers with some traces of use, spine somewhat discolorated, paper edges a bit soiled). ISBN: 9780198207344. "The Oxford history of early modern Europe".
16x23cm
1231 pp.
Oxford University Press 1998 New York Oxford
