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Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age

by Adam Sundberg
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781108831246
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 358
  • Original Price: GBP 99.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 694 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. The end of this Golden Age was also an era of natural disasters. Between the late seventeenth and the mid-eighteenth century, Dutch communities weathered numerous calamities, including river and coastal floods, cattle plagues, and an outbreak of strange mollusks that threatened the literal foundations of the Republic. Adam Sundberg demonstrates that these disasters emerged out of longstanding changes in environment and society. They were also fundamental to the Dutch experience and understanding of eighteenth-century decline. Disasters provoked widespread suffering, but they also opened opportunities to retool management strategies, expand the scale of response, and to reconsider the ultimate meaning of catastrophe. This book reveals a dynamic and often resilient picture of a society coping with calamity at odds with historical assessments of eighteenth-century stagnation.

Sundberg, Adam: - Adam Sundberg is an associate professor of History at Creighton University. His work has appeared in Environmental History, Dutch Crossing, and The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History.

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