The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

by Julia Adams

Book Overview

The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The Familial State, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland's great families played in this dramatic history. She charts how family patriarchs--who were at the time both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474043
• ISBN13: 9780801474040
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher