Familial State Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Name: Familial State Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9780801474040

ISBN-10: 0801474043

ISBN-13: 9780801474040

Edition: 2007

Authors: Julia Adams

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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 patriarchsntilde;who were at the time both state-builders and merchant capitalistsntilde;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 a profoundly gendered…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Netherlands as Point of Departure



The Patrimonial Nexus and Theories of State Formation



State Making, Hegemony, and Corporate Conflict in the Dutch Golden Age



The Familial State and the Rise of the Netherlands



Patrimonial Problems, Familial States, and Chartered Companies in Seventeenth-Century Europe



Dutch-Decline: The Loyalty of the Patriarch or the "Betrayal of the Bourgeoisie"?



France, England, and the Enigmatic Eighteenth Century


Conclusion


References


Index