The Dutch Golden Age

Kees Zandvliet • Boek • hardback

• Samenvatting
  The Netherlands in the Golden Age was almost unrecognisable compared with today, and yet, in some ways, it was not. Refugees sought a safe haven there, migrants did the heavy work and youngsters created a youth culture. Consumers wanted the latest fashions, investors bought shares and large shareholders made risky speculations.
  
  The story of the seventeenth century is and remains a miracle. A hotchpotch of provinces revolted against the Spanish king and then, in a series of ups and downs, built a new state that developed into an experiment unlike anything the world had ever seen before. A society emerged that was ruled by its citizens, a society of unprecedented freedoms and myriad religions, ships that sailed the world over and trading posts from Indonesia to Brazil. Scientists unravelled the mysteries of nature and painters presented a new vision of reality.
  
  So how should we regard such a miracle? This book sees the Dutch seventeenth century, the Golden Age, as a gateway to today's modern times, a period in which the Netherlands, and Holland and Amsterdam in particular, became a laboratory that the world used for experimental research on globalisation, migration, tolerance, consumerism, investment and media hypes, and many other modern trends.
  
  
  
  
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Hardback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 225mm x 288mm
  Aantal pagina's : 192
  Uitgeverij : WalburgPers Algemeen
  ISBN : 9789057308901
  Datum publicatie : 12-2012
  
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