num_pages: 332
description: Maarten Prak charts the political, social, economic and cultural history of the Golden Age through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip to the experience of immigrants and Jews in Dutch society, the paintings of Vermeer and Rembrandt, and the ideas of Spinoza. He sets the Dutch experience within a European context and examines the extent to which the Golden Age was a product of its own past or the harbinger of the more modern, industrialized and enlightened society of the future. This accessible study will prove invaluable reading to anyone interested in Dutch history.
language: English
title: The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age
titlecomplete: The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age
genres: Nonfiction, History, 17th Century
ratings_count: 110
publisher: Cambridge University Press