num_pages: 1280
description: The "Dutch Golden Age", the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers, was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes inthe history of the world. In this book, Johnathan Israel gives the definitive account of the emergence of the United Provinces as a great power, and explains the subsequent decline in the eighteenth century. He places the thought, politics, religion, and social developments of the Golden Age intheir broad context, and examines the changing relationship between the northern Netherlands and the south which was to develop into modern Belgium.This comprehensive and lucid account will be as useful to the reader primarily interested in artistic and cultural history as to the student who needs a survey of the Republic's institutions, class structure, and economic development. At the same time it will provide an invaluable aid to scholarsinterested in new research and new interpretations.
language: English
title: The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
titlecomplete: The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
characters: Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Johan de Witt, William III of England and II of Scotland, William of Orange
genres: Historical, Politics, European History, Holland, Nonfiction, World History, 18th Century, Economics, Medieval, History
ratings_count: 316
series: Oxford History of Early Modern Europe
publisher: Oxford University Press, USA