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Water, Wealth and Wrangling — Member Dossier
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For a century and a half a group of seven small provinces on the North Sea, most of them partly below sea level, was one of the richest, best-informed and most heavily taxed societies in Europe. It had no king. It was born in a rebellion against the most powerful monarch of its age, survived a war that lasted, with interruptions, from 1568 to 1648, and then fought three wars against England and two against France without losing its independence.
What you get
- 6 chapters, about 12200 words
- A chapter on what historians still argue about
- A chronology
- A reading list with the sources named
- PDF in A4 and US Letter
For: Readers who want one episode argued through from the evidence, with the disagreements between historians left visible.
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