January
31 The Dutch Republic
key terms: Navigation Acts; stadtholder; the Bourse
I. Background
first Navigation Act (1651)
Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-54, 1665-67, 1672-74)
the Low Countries
Eighty Years War (1568-1648)
II. The Dutch state
constitutionalism
regents
Estates General
stadholder (House of
Orange)
the Dutch
haven
Peter Bayle
Benedict Spinoza
William
Temple, Observations
upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands
III. An embarrassment of riches
the Dutch Golden Age
exchange bank (1609)
Amsterdam Bourse (1611)
tulip mania 1636-37
Dutch East
India Company (1602)
early modern consumerism
Rembrandt van Rijn
(1606-1669)
Jan Vermeer
(1632-1675)
"the
peculiarities of the Dutch" (Simon Schama)
IV. From rivals to allies
War of the League of Augsburg (1688-1697)
The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632)