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The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The Familial State, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland's great families played in this dramatic history. She charts how family patriarchs—who were at the time both state-builders and merchant capitalists—shaped the first great wave of European colonialism, which in turn influenced European political development in innovative ways.On the basis of massive archival work, Adams arrives at a profoundly gendered reading of the family/power structure of the Dutch elite and their companies, in particular the VOC or Dutch East India Company. In the United Provinces, she finds the first example of the power structure that would dominate the transitional states of early modern Europe—the "familial state." This organizational structure is typified, in her view, by "paternal political rule and multiple arrangements among the family heads."

The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The Familial State, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland's great families played in this dramatic history. She charts how family patriarchs—who were at the time both state-builders and merchant capitalists—shaped the first great wave of European colonialism, which in turn influenced European political development in innovative ways.On the basis of massive archival work, Adams arrives at a profoundly gendered reading of the family/power structure of the Dutch elite and their companies, in particular the VOC or Dutch East India Company. In the United Provinces, she finds the first example of the power structure that would dominate the transitional states of early modern Europe—the "familial state." This organizational structure is typified, in her view, by "paternal political rule and multiple arrangements among the family heads."

A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and cultural change. The volume captures an exciting new conversation among historical sociologists that brings a wider interdisciplinary project to bear on the problems and prospects of modernity.The contributors represent a wide variety of theoretical orientations and a broad spectrum of understandings of what constitutes historical sociology. They address such topics as religion, war, citizenship, markets, professions, gender and welfare, colonialism, ethnicity, bureaucracy, revolutions, collective action, and the modernist social sciences themselves. Remaking Modernity includes a significant introduction in which the editors consider prior orientations in historical sociology in order to analyze the field’s resurgence. They show how current research is building on and challenging previous work through attention to institutionalism, rational choice, the cultural turn, feminist theories and approaches, and colonialism and the racial formations of empire.ContributorsJulia AdamsJustin BaerRichard BiernackiBruce CarruthersElisabeth ClemensRebecca Jean EmighRussell FaegesPhilip GorskiRoger GouldMeyer KestnbaumEdgar KiserMing-Cheng LoZine MagubaneAnn Shola OrloffNader SohrabiMargaret SomersLyn SpillmanGeorge Steinmetz

Find out all about the human body by asking some clever questions!Where does blood come from? What does a belly button do? And just why do we feel hungry? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Questions: Animals!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series:Animals / Dinosaurs / Human Body / Planet Earth / Rainforest / Robots & AI / Space / Technology

Find out all about the human body by asking some clever questions!Where does blood come from? What does a belly button do? And just why do we feel hungry? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Questions: Animals!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series:Animals / Dinosaurs / Human Body / Planet Earth / Rainforest / Robots & AI / Space / Technology

Find out all about space by asking some clever questions!Where does space start? Why do stars twinkle? And do aliens really exist?! Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Questions: Space!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series:AnimalsDinosaursHow Things WorkHuman BodyPlanet EarthRainforestRobots & AISpace

Find out all about space by asking some clever questions!Where does space start? Why do stars twinkle? And do aliens really exist?! Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Questions: Space!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series:AnimalsDinosaursHow Things WorkHuman BodyPlanet EarthRainforestRobots & AISpace

Find out all about robots and AI by asking some clever questions!Do robots have feelings? Can they have babies? And what REALLY is AI? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Robot and AI Questions!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics for readers aged 6 and up. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series:Animals / Dinosaurs / Human Body / Planet Earth / Rainforest / Robots & AI / Space / Technology

Find out all about robots and AI by asking some clever questions!Do robots have feelings? Can they have babies? And what REALLY is AI? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Robot and AI Questions!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics for readers aged 6 and up. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series:Animals / Dinosaurs / Human Body / Planet Earth / Rainforest / Robots & AI / Space / Technology

Find out all about how things work by asking some clever questions!How does WIFI work? How do planes fly? And just how does my phone know where I am?! Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Questions: Technology!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series:Animals / Dinosaurs / Human Body / Planet Earth / Rainforest / Robots & AI / Space / Technology

Find out all about how things work by asking some clever questions!How does WIFI work? How do planes fly? And just how does my phone know where I am?! Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Questions: Technology!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series:Animals / Dinosaurs / Human Body / Planet Earth / Rainforest / Robots & AI / Space / Technology

Find out all about Planet Earth by asking some clever questions!What makes the ground shake? How hot are lightning bolts? And what IS at the end of a rainbow? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Questions: Planet Earth!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series: Animals / Dinosaurs / Human Body / Planet Earth / Rainforest / Robots & AI / Space / Technology

Find out all about Planet Earth by asking some clever questions!What makes the ground shake? How hot are lightning bolts? And what IS at the end of a rainbow? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Clever Questions: Planet Earth!Discover the world with these fun, child-friendly question and answer books on high-interest topics. Along the way, readers will discover fascinating facts to remember and share, as well as learn key science and geography information.Books in the series: Animals / Dinosaurs / Human Body / Planet Earth / Rainforest / Robots & AI / Space / Technology

Everyone know that Britain has a Queen, but who is she and what does she do? How do you become a Queen and who will be Head of State next?This book answers these questions as well as looking at the roles of other royal family members.A timeline at the back of the book shows the full history of the British Royal Family.For children aged 7 and up who are interested in learning about the modern British Royal Family.Title in this series:The QueenWilliam and KatePrince CharlesHarry and Meghan

On 8 November 2016, some 130 million people in the USA cast their vote to decide who should become their next President. The candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, had fought a campaign that had divided their country more than any previous election. The resulting Trump presidency would not only affect the citizens of the USA, but billions of people around the world. Aimed at young tweens and teens, this book gives readers a balanced and accessible account of Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency and his uncompromising and highly controversial policies and behaviour as President.

Antonín Dvořák was a clever and highly communicative humorist and musical dramatist. His masterful compositional strategies underscore, heighten, and construct sonic humor in his six (!!) comic operas. He crafts musical slapstick, satire, parody, and merriment using sudden breaks in rhythmic patterns, explosive harmonic shifts, excessive repetition, and startling pauses, as well as incongruous tempi, dynamics, range, and instrumentation. Dvořák also gives the orchestra its own "voice," breaking the metaphorical "fourth wall" to reveal humor outside of the characters' awareness. Narrative description and comprehensive music examples guide the reader through all six of Dvořák's works in this genre, revealing a significantly under-appreciated side of the composer's immense creative skills.