Overview of the financial history of the Netherlands from the sixteenth century onwards.

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This account of the sophisticated financial hub that was 17th-century Amsterdam “does a fine job of bringing history to life” (Library Journal). The launch

This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.

In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the