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Matters of Exchange
In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook scrutinizes a wealth of historical documents relating to the study of medicine and natural history in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe, Brazil, South Africa, and Asia during this era, and his conclusions are fresh and exciting. He uncovers direct links between the rise of trade and commerce in the Dutch Empire and the flourishing of scientific investigation.Cook argues that engaging in commerce changed the thinking of Dutch citizens, leading to a new emphasis on such values as objectivity, accumulation, and description. The preference for accurate information that accompanied the rise of commerce also laid the groundwork for the rise of science globally, wherever the Dutch engaged in trade. Medicine and natural history were fundamental aspects of this new science, as reflected in the development of gardens for both pleasure and botanical study, anatomical theaters, curiosity cabinets, and richly illustrated books about nature. Sweeping in scope and original in its insights, this book revises previous understandings of the history of science and ideas.
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Eye of the beholder : Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing
\"Snyder transports us to the streets, inns, and guildhalls of seventeenth-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, and to their studios and laboratories, where they mixed paints and prepared canvases, ground and polished lenses, examined and dissected insects and other animals, and invented the modern notion of seeing, ... [bringing] Vermeer and Van Leeuwenhoek--and the men and women around them--vividly to life\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
This book is the first comprehensive study of the radical political thought of the brothers Johan and Pieter de la Court, two eminent theorists from the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic who played a pivotal role in the rise of commercial republicanism.
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Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715
The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the 'Book of Nature' was transformed.
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Europe within Reach
In Europe within Reach Gerrit Verhoeven traces some sweeping evolutions in the early modern travel behaviour of Dutch and Flemish elites (1585-1750), as the classical Grand Tour to Italy was slowly but surely overshadowed by other modes of travelling.
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Women and Crime \u2028in Early Modern Holland
Crime is men's business, isn't it? Women are responsible for 10 percent of crime in Europe. Yet, if we look at the Dutch Republic in the early modern period, we find that in the towns of Holland women played a much larger role in crime. In a number of early modern towns about half of the criminals convicted in court were women. These women were in vulnerable positions and thus more likely to become involved in crime. They also had a relatively independent status and led remarkably public lives. Manon van der Heijden convincingly shows that it is the very combination of women's vulnerability and independence that accounts for the high female crime rates in Holland between 1600 and 1800.
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Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll
Sex and Drugs Before Rock ’n’ Roll is a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ways in which they expressed themselves by defying conservative values and norms. This study reveals how these young men rebelled, breaking from previous generations: letting their hair grow long, wearing colorful clothing, drinking excessively, challenging city guards, being promiscuous, smoking, and singing lewd songs. Cogently argued, this study paints a compelling portrait of the youth culture of the Dutch Golden Age, at a time when the rising popularity of print made dissemination of new cultural ideas possible, while rising incomes and liberal attitudes created a generation of men behaving badly.
Dit boek richt zich op één generatie van jonge mannen die werd geboren rond 1600 en volwassen werd tijdens het hoogtepunt van de Gouden Eeuw. Van bekende generatiegenoten, zoals Rembrandt van Rijn, wordt onderzocht hoe ze uiting gaven aan hun jongerencultuur en mannelijkheid. Roberts onderzoekt de mannelijkheid van deze jonge mannen op het gebied van uiterlijk, drinken, drugs, het gebruik van geweld, hun seksualiteit en hun manier van vrijetijdsinvulling. Hij laat zien hoe zij zich afzetten tegen de vorige generatie onder andere door hun lang haren, kleurrijke kleding, promiscuiteit en overmatig drankgebruik.
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The Dutch Moment
The author draws on a dazzling variety of archival and
printed sources... The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to
the field. ―Renaissance Quarterly
In The Dutch Moment , Wim Klooster
shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire
that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the
Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold
Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the
decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners,
largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many
settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or
the New World. The Dutch would not have been able to achieve
military victories without the native alliances they carefully
cultivated. Indeed, the Dutch Atlantic was quintessentially
interimperial, multinational, and multiracial. At the same time, it
was an empire entirely designed to benefit the United
Provinces.
The pivotal colony in the Dutch Atlantic was Brazil, half of
which was conquered by the Dutch West India Company. Its brief
lifespan notwithstanding, Dutch Brazil (1630-1654) had a lasting
impact on the Atlantic world. The scope of Dutch warfare in Brazil
is hard to overestimate-this was the largest interimperial conflict
of the seventeenth-century Atlantic. Brazil launched the Dutch into
the transatlantic slave trade, a business they soon dominated. At
the same time, Dutch Brazil paved the way for a Jewish life in
freedom in the Americas after the first American synagogues opened
their doors in Recife. In the end, the entire colony eventually
reverted to Portuguese rule, in part because Dutch soldiers,
plagued by perennial poverty, famine, and misery, refused to take
up arms. As they did elsewhere, the Dutch lost a crucial colony
because of the empire's systematic neglect of the very soldiers on
whom its defenses rested.
After the loss of Brazil and, ten years later, New Netherland,
the Dutch scaled back their political ambitions in the Atlantic
world. Their American colonies barely survived wars with England
and France. As the imperial dimension waned, the interimperial
dimension gained strength. Dutch commerce with residents of foreign
empires thrived in a process of constant adaptation to foreign
settlers' needs and mercantilist obstacles.
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Global Calvinism
A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist
missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern
period \"A tour de force offering the reader the
best study of global Calvinism in the realms of the Dutch East
India Company.\"-Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, editor,
Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden
Age Calvinism went global in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, as close to a thousand Dutch Reformed
ministers, along with hundreds of lay chaplains, attached
themselves to the Dutch East India and West India companies. Across
Asia, Africa, and the Americas where the trading companies set up
operation, Dutch ministers sought to convert \"pagans,\" \"Moors,\"
Jews, and Catholics and to spread the cultural influence of
Protestant Christianity. As Dutch ministers labored under the
auspices of the trading companies, the missionary project
coalesced, sometimes grudgingly but often readily, with empire
building and mercantile capitalism. Simultaneously, Calvinism
became entangled with societies around the world as encounters with
indigenous societies shaped the development of European religious
and intellectual history. Though historians have traditionally
treated the Protestant and European expansion as unrelated
developments, the global reach of Dutch Calvinism offers a unique
opportunity to understand the intermingling of a Protestant faith,
commerce, and empire.
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