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The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age

Maarten Prak · Cambridge University Press · 2005

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Author
Maarten Prak
Identifier
DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511817311
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedIn the Dutch Republic sovereignty lay with the seven provinces, each with one vote in the States General; the States General could make treaties, war and peace, raise armies and fleets and assess provincial contributions, but such decisions required unanimity and the sanction of the provinces.DisputedThe seventeenth-century Dutch Republic was 'the first modern economy'.