Economic and Social History in the Netherlands

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY IN THE NETHERLANDS

Economic and Social History in the Netherlands is an annual publication of the Netherlands Economic History Archive (NEHA), Amsterdam. It contains articles written by Dutch scholars on the history of the Netherlands and its (former) colonies. The articles are mainly historiographical overviews and studies of a comparative nature.

Contents vol. 2 (1990): DICK VAN LENTE, The crafts in industrial society: ideals and policy in JAN KOK, The moral nation. the Netherlands, 1890-1930. Illegitimacy and bridal pregnancy in the Netherlands from 1600 to the JAAP BARENDREGT, Currency reform in present. Europe: the Dutch case (1945-1952).

PETER BOOMGAARD, Why work for ERIK BLOEMEN, Hard work! Ideology wages? Free labour in Java,1600 - and interest in Dutch economic policy 1900. at home and abroad between 1945 and 1951. WANTJE FRITSCHY, Taxation in Britain, France and the Netherlands in the eighteenth century.

JAN PIETER SMITS, The size and structure of the Dutch service sector in international perspective, 1850- 1914.

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