Pepijn Brandon

In War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795), Pepijn Brandon provides a sweeping new interpretation of the rise and fall of the Dutch Republic, focusing on the interaction between state and capital in the organisation of warfare.

War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795)

Lex Heerma van Voss

Annemieke Romein

In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the modern state once held. While war pushed the boundaries of the emerging fiscal military states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rulers remained highly dependent on negotiations with competing elite groups and the private networks of contractors and financial intermediaries. Attempts to increase control over subjects often resulted in popular resistance, that in their turn set limits to and influenced the direction of the development of state institutions. Written in honour of the leading historian of war and state formation in the early modern Low Countries Marjolein 't Hart, the chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers, beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond Europe in the early modern period.

Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart

The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents

In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern state" once held. While war pushed the boundaries of the emerging fiscal military states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rulers remained highly dependent on negotiations with competing elite groups and the private networks of contractors and financial intermediaries. Attempts to increase control over subjects often resulted in popular resistance, that in their turn set limits to and influenced the direction of the development of state institutions. Written in honour of the leading historian of war and state formation in the early modern Low Countries, Marjolein 't Hart, the chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers, beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond Europe in the early modern period.

Matthias van Rossum

Guno Jones

Nancy Jouwe

Amsterdam en de slavernij in Oost en West 'Het belangrijkste boek over het Nederlandse slavernijverleden dat de afgelopen tijd is uitgekomen.' de Volkskrant Driehonderd jaar lang was de stad Amsterdam een speler in de slavenhandel en slavernij in de Oost en West. Maar welke politieke en persoonlijke rol hadden de bestuurders van de stad daar eigenlijk bij? In hoeverre beïnvloedde de slavernij de ontwikkeling van Amsterdam en zijn inwoners? En wat voor invloed hadden de keuzes van Amsterdamse bestuurders op de levens van de honderdduizenden tot slaaf gemaakte mensen in Amerika, Afrika en Azië? En tot slot: werkt dit verleden vandaag de dag nog door in de stad? In De slavernij in Oost en West probeert een veertigtal experts antwoorden te vinden op dit soort vragen. Aan de hand van toegankelijk geschreven essays laten zij hun licht schijnen over het wereldwijde slavernijverleden van Amsterdam van de zestiende tot de achttiende eeuw, en de betekenis daarvan vandaag de dag. Pepijn Brandon is senior onderzoeker bij het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis en universitair docent aan de Vrije Universiteit. Guno Jones is als interdisciplinair onderzoeker verbonden aan de Vrije Universiteit. Nancy Jouwe is freelance onderzoeker en co-auteur van onder meer de Gids Slavernijverleden Amsterdam. Matthias van Rossum is senior onderzoeker aan het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis. De beeldredactie is verzorgd door Merve Tosun.

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