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Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585-1740 (Clarendon Paperbacks) Paperback – September 13, 1990
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- Print length484 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication dateSeptember 13, 1990
- Dimensions8.5 x 5.51 x 1.09 inches
- ISBN-109780198211396
- ISBN-13978-0198211396
- Lexile measure1740L
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- ASIN : 0198211392
- Publisher : Clarendon Press (September 13, 1990)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 484 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780198211396
- ISBN-13 : 978-0198211396
- Lexile measure : 1740L
- Item Weight : 1.25 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 5.51 x 1.09 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,424,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #292 in Dutch History
- #3,018 in International Business & Investing
- #3,273 in Linguistics Reference
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2009Don't bother buy this book. It's horribly inaccurate. For example, in a single paragraph on page 111 nearly everything this author wrote is inaccurate:
"Whales had been hunted off the north of Norway by Spanish Basque whalers, sailing from San Sebastian, for over a century." The first documented Spanish Basque whaling expeditions weren't sent to Northern Norway until the 1610s.
"Then, in the 1590s, the English Muscovy Company began hunting whales in the seas around Nova Zemblaya and Beren Island, as well as walrus on land." There are no documented English whaling expeditions to either locale during this period.
"Around 1609 the first Dutch whaling ships went out to Nova Zemblaya." The first Dutch whaling expedition was sent out to Spitsbergen in 1613.
"The very next year, 1612, French, Spanish, and Dutch firms began to follow the English example." This sentence is in reference to the first whaling expeditions sent by each country to Spitsbergen. Only the Spanish sent a whaling expedition this year (the French and Dutch only sending whaling expeditions the following year).
"In 1613 the London Muscovy Company sent seven vessels, which were joined by four other English whaling ships." According to the two accounts written by Robert Fotherby and William Baffin, only one other English whaling ship was met by the London fleet. Edge, writing in 1622, says there were four, which is, as shown above, inaccurate. The author apparently didn't bother to read either of these sources.
I could probably cite countless other cases, but I believe the above quotes are enough to show the author didn't bother do enough research for this book.
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- Krešimir DugonjicReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Anyone interested in how Netherlands or Seven Provinces became first ...
Anyone interested in how Netherlands or Seven Provinces became first power of Europe should look in to the tables about volume of trade made by Dutch traders in every corner of then known world. As a small country of around 1.5 million people they resisted Spain and later Louis XIV because they had a huge financial backing with developed system of banking, exchange letters and bonds for which I believe laid foundations of today`s economy and at very least made a pattern still in practice in 21st century. So, for deeper understanding of how "they made it" this is a book for a reader.