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 EH.Net Encyclopedia: Dutch Economy in the "Golden Age" (16th-17th Centuries)
Dutch shippers seized the chance to find new sources for products that had been supplied by the Spanish and soon fleets of Dutch ships sailed to the Americas.
For centuries, Flanders and to a lesser extent Brabant had been at the forefront of the medieval European economy.
"Dutch Herring, Technology, and International Trade in the Seventeenth Century." Journal of Economic History 40 (1980): 253-280.
http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Harreld.Dutch   (4405 words)

  
 List of people from the Dutch Golden Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The accompanying article about the Dutch Golden Age focusses on society, religion and culture.
His Kinderen zijn hinderen (English: Children are a nuisance) is still a Dutch saying, often followed by the remark that Cats probably had forgotten that he had been a child himself.
There is also an article about the Eighty Years' War, the Dutch Revolt against Spain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_the_Dutch_Golden_Age   (1146 words)

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