An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 18001920
Subtitle: Demographic, Economic and Social Transition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 23, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780521782951
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History: World; Europe - General; History - General History; Western Europe - Benelux; Netherlands; Economic History; Social History; Business & Economics / Economic History; Netherlands--Economic conditions; Economic conditions; Demography; History; Social conditions
First sentence: One of the most eloquent indicators of the state of an economy is the physical well-being of its population.
Description: "An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 1800-1920 provides a comprehensive account of Dutch history from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, examining population and health, the economy, and socio-political history. Michael Wintle also examines the lives of ordinary people: what they ate, how much they earned, what they thought about public affairs, and how they wooed and wed. This is the only single-authored book currently available in English on this crucial period of Dutch history, and it will be of central importance to Dutch specialists, as well as to European historians more generally."--Jacket.