Bücher von A. Th. van Deursen

Volume VIII of Acta Historiae Neerlandicae again presents studies on the history of the Low Countries which it is hoped will be of interest to foreign scholars. So institutional, political, economic, social and cultural history all receive a fair share of attention, and together the studies cover a considerable number of centuries.

This is an account of the ordinary working people of Holland in the seventeenth-century, the so-called 'golden age'.