During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power in Europe, with global trading interests. It nurtured some of

An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.

In this book Michael North examines the Dutch Golden Age, when the Netherlands boasted Europe's greatest number of cities & its highest literacy rate, with unus

Offers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century.

Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was t