The Dutch Republic as a Bourgeois Society
Historians have often portrayed the Dutch Republic as the first ‘bourgeois’ society. What they had in mind was an early example of a society dominated by the sort of middle class that emerged in most other European countries after the French and Industrial Revolutions. In this article, ‘bourgeois’ is perceived in a slightly different way. By looking at the ‘bourgeois’ as ‘citizens’ – often, but not necessarily, middle class in a social sense – the article paints a picture of a plethora of blossoming urban civic institutions. Such civic institutions also existed in other European countries. Wha... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, Vol 125, Iss 2-3 (2010) |
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Schlagwörter: | Citizenship / Dutch Republic / History of Low Countries - Benelux Countries / DH1-925 |
Sprache: | Englisch Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27408970 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/dd799fc17bd34dcfb45dbd52f0b41922 |