The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeCollins, 1987 - 698 pagina's This text explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. |
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Pagina 231
... trading companies were also in favor of some sort of protecting legislation backed up , if need be , with force . The Levant Company was watching its trade to Turkey wither under Dutch competition , and the Eastland Company had always ...
... trading companies were also in favor of some sort of protecting legislation backed up , if need be , with force . The Levant Company was watching its trade to Turkey wither under Dutch competition , and the Eastland Company had always ...
Pagina 251
... trading network was to systematically planned sabotage.50 The very interdependence of the carrying trade which in propi- tious times was so much a Dutch strength came to seem an extra hazard in that when one link snapped the whole chain ...
... trading network was to systematically planned sabotage.50 The very interdependence of the carrying trade which in propi- tious times was so much a Dutch strength came to seem an extra hazard in that when one link snapped the whole chain ...
Pagina 255
... trade routes and raw material supplies . Other powers , then , might easily draw the conclusion that trade wars could in fact yield dividends that peaceful competition ( on Dutch terms ) could not . The lessons of the first Anglo ...
... trade routes and raw material supplies . Other powers , then , might easily draw the conclusion that trade wars could in fact yield dividends that peaceful competition ( on Dutch terms ) could not . The lessons of the first Anglo ...
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