Emulating Success: Contemporary Views of the Dutch Economy before 1800 -- Holland's New Fiscal Regime, 1572-1576 -- The Efficiency of Taxation in Holland -- The Political Economy of Bread in the Dutch Republic -- Mutual Advantages: State Bankers as Brokers between the City of Amsterdam and the Dutch Republic -- Tax Morale and Citizenship in the Dutch Republic -- Rural Development and Landownership in Holland, c.1400-1650 -- Financing Water Management in Rijnland, 1500-1800.
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In the first half of the seventeenth century the Dutch Republic emerged as one of Europe's leading maritime powers. 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 political economy of the Dutch republic from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Building on earlier scholarship and extensive new evidence it tackles two main issues: the effect of political revolution on property rights and public fin.