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| Introduction | |
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| The Background of Daily Life | |
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| The Town: Appearance, Maintaining Order | |
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| The Countryside | |
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| Highways and Canals | |
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| The Dutch Interior | |
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| The House: Arrangement and Furnishing, Gardens and Flowers | |
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| The Toilet: Waking, Washing and Hair-styling, Ways of Dressing | |
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| Food: Setting the Table, Dutch Cooking | |
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| The Evening at Home | |
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| The Course of Life | |
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| Religion | |
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| Children | |
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| Education: The Junior Schools, Higher Education and the Sciences | |
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| Love Life | |
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| Domestic Existence | |
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| The Guilds | |
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| Sickness and Death: Patients and Doctors, The Art of Medicine, Surgery, From Death-bed to Cemetery | |
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| Recreations | |
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| Sports and Games | |
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| Banquets and Drinking-bouts: Traditional Guzzling, Fashionable Beverages, Tobacco | |
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| Feast-Days and Holidays: Traditional Celebrations, Kermises | |
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| Arts and Letters | |
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| Fine Arts: Painters, Musicians | |
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| Belles-Lettres: 'The Rhetoricians', The Theatre and its Actors, Men and Women of Letters, Books and Publishing | |
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| Dutch Society | |
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| The Power of the Hierarchies: Class Distinctions, Social Exclusiveness | |
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| The People: Bourgeoisie, Workers, Seamen, Peasants | |
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| Paupers and Criminals | |
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| The Armed Forces | |
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| Foreigners and Refugees | |
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| Holland at Work | |
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| A Wealthy Country: The Organisation of Wealth, Postal and Information Services, Taxation | |
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| Commerce and the Spirit of Adventure | |
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| The Fleet: Merchant Service and Navy, Corsairs and Pirates | |
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| Trading and Colonisation: The Great Companies, Colonists and Slaves | |
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| Industry: Its Shortcomings, The Fisheries | |
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| Working the Land: Tilling and Grazing, Dikes and Polders | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| 'The Delights of Freedom' | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |