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Globalization, environmental change, and social history
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ISBN: 1107222478 1139202227 1280484659 9786613579638 1139206613 1139203630 113920503X 113920582X 0511920679 1107401518 9781107401518 9781139206617 9781139203630 9780511920677 9781139205030 9781107222472 9781139202220 9781280484650 6613579637 Year: 2010 Volume: 18 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Throughout all ages, the activities of mankind have weighed heavily upon the environment. In turn, changes in that environment have favoured the rise of certain social groups and limited the actions of others. Despite this, environmental history has remained a 'blind spot' for most social and economic historians. This is to be regretted, as the various and unequal effects of environmental change often explain the strengths and weaknesses of certain social groups, irrespective of their being defined along the lines of class, gender and ethnicity. This volume brings together the expertise of social and environmental historians in an effort to assess the extent to which transnational agents changed socioecological space as a consequence of globalization since the Late Middle Ages.

A financial history of the Netherlands
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ISBN: 0521581613 0521142601 0511559755 9780521581615 9780511559754 9780521142601 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book brings together the results of fresh scholarly research to present a unique overview of the financial history of the Netherlands from the sixteenth century onwards. The Netherlands has always occupied a role in international finance way out of proportion with its geographical size. Since the eighteenth century, the country has been one of the largest exporters of capital in the world. In addition, several important financial innovations were pioneered in the Netherlands, such as a funded public debt, the famous Amsterdam Wisselbank, large public limited companies with transferable shares, and securitized international loans. The book shows the evolution of the Dutch financial system during nearly four and a half centuries, detailing the close interrelationship between currency policy, public finance, and banking.

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