Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age: The Political Thought of Johan & Pieter de la CourtThis book is the first comprehensive study of the radical political thought of the brothers Johan and Pieter de la Court, two eminent theorists from the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic who played a pivotal role in the rise of commercial republicanism. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
I THE MAKING OF AN ŒUVRE | 25 |
II THE RHETORIC OF THE MARKET | 69 |
III WISE MERCHANTS | 141 |
IV THE COMMERCIAL COMMONWEALTH | 205 |
V CONCORD AND TOLERATION | 284 |
The Brothers De la Court and the Commercial Republican Tradition | 345 |
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