The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
Julia Adams
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Paperback. Series: The Wilder House Series in Politics, History & Culture. Num Pages: 250 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; JFSC; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
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 state-builders and merchant capitalists—shaped the first great wave of European colonialism, which in turn influenced European political development in innovative ways.
On the basis of massive archival work, Adams arrives at ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
The Wilder House Series in Politics, History & Culture
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801474040
SKU
V9780801474040
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About Julia Adams
Julia Adams is Professor of Sociology at Yale University.
Reviews for The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
Seldom have two hundred pages displayed such ambitious goals and achieved them with such a remarkable fluency. Julia Adams examines state formation and familial institutions in three early modern European countries: the Netherlands, France, and England. In so doing, she restores the Dutch experience to the centrality that it commanded in the seventeenth century. The book also suggests to national ... Read more