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Plain lives in a golden age

by Arie Theodorus van Deursen

1991 408 pages eng

This is an account of the ordinary working people of Holland in the seventeenth-century, the so-called 'golden age'. Professor van Deursen is the most outstanding and gifted scholar at present working on this period of Dutch history. His history 'from below' is based on a mass of contemporary docume…

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