The Familial State

Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

By:

Julia Adams

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Paperback / softback

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The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture

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The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The Familial State, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland's great families played in this dramatic history. She charts how family patriarchs-who were at the time both state-builders and merchant capitalists-shaped the first great wave of European colonialism, which in turn influenced European political development in innovative ways.On the basis of massive archival work, Adams arrives at a profoundly gendered reading of the family/power structure of the Dutch elite and their companies, in particular the VOC or Dutch East India Company. In the United Provinces, she finds the first example of the power structure that would dominate the transitional states of early modern Europe-the "familial state." This organizational structure is typified, in her view, by "paternal political rule and multiple arrangements among the family heads."

Author Biography:

Julia Adams is Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

Release date Australia

July 16th, 2007

Author

Julia Adams

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

252

Series

The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780801474040

Product ID

3422153

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