The Port of Rotterdam


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The First Modern Economy


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A comprehensive economic history of the Netherlands, the first truly modern economy, during its rise to European economic leadership.




An Observer of Observatories


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Thomas Bugge, director of the observatory in Copenhagen, kept a diary during his travels in Germany, Holland and England in 1777. He described his meetings with leading scientists, artists and instrument makers, and the many scientific institutions he visited. The diary is also full of drawings of the buildings, technical devices and instruments he saw. Bugge's diary is now available in an English translation with an introduction and notes by historians of science Kurt Moller Pedersen and Peter de Clercq.




Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, 1618-1700 (2 Vols.)


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In Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century Arthur der Weduwen presents the first comprehensive account of the early newspaper in the Low Countries, composed of detailed introductions and extensive bibliographical descriptions.







The Revolution of 1688-89


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Interdisciplinary interpretations of the Revolution and of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian world.







The Shell Money of the Slave Trade


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A study of the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade.