This study offers the first complete overview of the remarkable public finances of the Dutch Republic of the United Provinces. Wantje Fritschy has analysed the development and structure of its public revenue and expenditure.

Overview of the financial history of the Netherlands from the sixteenth century onwards.

The political and military leadership of this small country was based on large-scale borrowing from an increasingly wealthy middle class of merchants, manufacturers and regents This volume presents the first comprehensive account of the ...

This remarkable volume marshals the contributions of foremost translators and linguists. Never before has a single book shed so much light on Bible translation in so accessible a fashion.

Ferguson tells the human story behind the evolution of money, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest Wall Street upheavals. The author shows that finance is, in fact, the foundation of human progress.

"Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster forms the inaugural volume of a new series, the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe, and offers a comprehensive, integrated account of the northern part of the Netherlands over almost 350 years.

... history department of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam . She has a personal professorship in the history of public finance of the early modern period . Her recent publications include " Indirect taxes and public debt in ' the world ...

This book uses new archival evidence and an approach informed by the history of technology to show how plural currencies gave early modern users considerable agency.

This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.

... economic enterprise is that of the currency . In this the Dutch government of the nineteenth century was successful , though it could claim little credit , especially early in the century . Until the mid - century the Netherlands ...