The Netherlands

The Dutch, the Low Countries

February 18, 2025 — February 18, 2025

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Placeholder. I knew little about the Low Countries, but between my abiding interest in Indonesia, the jewel in the former Dutch trading empire, and the fact that I live in Australia, a country discovered for Europe by the Dutch, and my obsession with the Dutch Rijksmuseum, I confess I have intrigued myself.

1 Inventions of capitalism

Many early features of capitalism started in the Netherlands.

2 References