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  • Citizens without Nations

    Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789

    by Maarten Prak ...
    Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak recovers the much longer tradition of urban citizenship across the medieval and early modern world. Ranging from Europe and the American colonies to China and the Middle East, he reveals how the role of 'ordinary ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

    by Maarten Prak ...
    Translated by Diane Webb ...
    Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest nations on earth. As one contemporary wrote in 1673: the Dutch were 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Urban History of Europe: Volume 2, Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Patrick Lantschner, Maarten Prak ...
    Series series The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
    Volume II charts European urbanism between 700–1850, the millennium during which Europe became the world's most urbanised region. Featuring thirty-six chapters from leading scholars working on all the major linguistic areas of Europe, the volume offers a state-of-the-art survey that explores and explains this transformation, how similar or different such processes were across Europe, and how far ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Urban History of Europe: Volume 1, Ancient Europe

    by Maarten Prak ...
    Series series The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
    Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Urban History of Europe: Volume 3, Modern and Contemporary Europe

    by Maarten Prak ...
    Series series The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
    Volume III uncovers the radical transformations of European cities from 1850 until the twenty-first century. The volume explores how modern developments in urban environments, socio-cultural dynamics, the relation between work and leisure, and governance have transformed urban life. It highlights these complex processes across different regions, showcasing the latest scholarship and current ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Early Modern Capitalism

    Economic and Social Change in Europe 1400-1800

    Edited by MAARTEN PRAK ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries

    Work, Power, and Representation

    by Catharina Lis, Hugo Soly ...
    In the half millennium of their existence, guilds in the Low Countries played a highly significant role in shaping the societies of which they were a part. One key aspect that has been identified in recent historical research to explain the survival of the guilds for such a long time is the guilds' continued adaptability to changing circumstances. This idea of flexibility is the point of departure ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Maarten Prak, Patrick Wallis ...
    This is the first comparative and comprehensive account of occupational training before the Industrial Revolution. Apprenticeship was a critical part of human capital formation, and, because of this, it has a central role to play in understanding economic growth in the past. At the same time, it was a key stage in the lives of many people, whose access to skills and experience of learning were ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Pioneers of Capitalism

    The Netherlands 1000–1800

    by Maarten Prak, Jan Luiten van Zanden ...
    Translated by Ian Cressie ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic growth. Pioneers of Capitalism examines the formal and informal institutions in the Netherlands that made this economic miracle possible, providing ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

    Volume II: Cultures and Power

    Edited by Hamish Scott ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • A Concise History of the Netherlands

    by James C. Kennedy ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social policies such as cannabis and euthanasia. Yet the historical background for any of these quintessentially Dutch achievements is often unfamiliar to outsiders. This Concise History offers an overview of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Making of Polities

    Europe, 1300–1500

    by John Watts ...
    Series series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
    This major survey of political life in late medieval Europe provides a framework for understanding the developments that shaped this turbulent period. Rather than emphasising crisis, decline, disorder or the birth of the modern state, this account centres on the mixed results of political and governmental growth across the continent. The age of the Hundred Years War, schism and revolt was also a ... Read more

    $36.09 USD