Dutch Capital and World Capitalism - Capitalisme Hollondais Et Capitalisme Mondial

Zusammenfassung Throughout the seventeenth century! Holland was the unrivalled centre of world trade and banking. This economic success fascinated contemporaries! and questions about it still exercise historians today. Is it appropriate to view the economic position of the Dutch during this period in terms of 'supremacy'! or! as Immanuel Wallerstein has argued! of 'hegemony'? Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The economy of the United Provinces/L'economie des Provinces-Unies: 1. Le capitalisme hollandais et l'organisation de l'espace dans les Provinces-Unies Jean-Claude Boyer; 2. The economic situation in the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century Bernard Hendrik Slicher van Bath; 3. An inquiry into the behaviour of wages in the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands from 1580 to 1800 Jan de Vries; Part II. Dutch capitalism and Europe/Le capitalisme hollandais et l'Europe: 4. Dutch capitalism and the European world-economy Peter Wolfgang Klein; 5. Dutch hegemony in the seventeenth-century world-economy Immanuel Wallerstein; 6. Les interdependances economiques dans le champ d'action europeen des Hollandais (XVIe-XVIIIe siecle) Pierre Jeannin; 7. Image du capitalisme hollandais au XVIIIe siecle. Le miroir marseillais Charles Carriere; Part III. Dutch capitalism and Asia/Le capitalisme hollandais et l'Asie: 8. The import of bullion and coin into Asia by the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ivo Schoffer & F.S. Gaastra; 9. The Dutch East India Company as an institutional innovation Niels Steensgaard; 10. Le capitalisme hollandais Denys Lombard; Part IV. Measuring the Dutch economy/Mesures de l'economie hollandaise: 11. Hommage aux historiens hollandais et contribution a l'histoire economique des Provinces-Unies Michel Morineau.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Aymard, Aymard Maurice
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521086073
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08607-3
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Studies in Modern Capitalism; Studies in Modern Capitalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history, Netherlands, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, C 1600 To C 1700