Dutch Culture In The Golden Age

Author: J.L. Price

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  • : 68.99 NZD
  • : 9781861898005
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  • : 01 March 2011
  • : 216mm X 138mm X 33mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

J. L. Price argues that, alongside the innovative tendencies in Dutch society and culture, there were powerful conservative and even reactionary forces at work, and that it was the tension between these two contradictory impulses that gave the period its peculiar dynamic.

Author description

J. L. Price is a former Reader in History at the University of Hull, and is one of the leading British authorities on the history of the Dutch Republic. He is the author of a number of books and articles including Culture and Society in the Dutch Republic During the Seventeenth Century (1974), The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (1998) and Dutch Society, 1588-1712 (2000).