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The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism

The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism

Kees Boterbloem

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2019
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Historia
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9781138692886
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This study investigates a less-than-wholesome chapter in capitalism’s early manifestation in the Dutch Republic and its seventeenth-century global economic entanglements in the arms trade and mercenary warfare, showing how the Dutch accumulation of great wealth was closely linked to their involvement in warfare at home and far abroad.

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