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100 1 _aPirenne, Henri,
_d1862-1935
245 1 4 _aLes anciennes démocraties des Pays-Bas
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2024
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aBibliothèque de Philosophie scientifique
500 _aRelease date is 2024-10-11
508 _aLaurent Vogel, Pierre Lacaze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520 _a"Les anciennes démocraties des Pays-Bas" by Henri Pirenne is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book explores the urban democracies that developed in the historical region known as the Netherlands, focusing particularly on the Middle Ages and how these city-states emerged and evolved. It examines the origins of cities, the economic and social conditions that fostered their growth, and the reasons behind their eventual decline. The opening of the work introduces the context in which urban life in the Netherlands developed, emphasizing that the area was characterized by late urbanization compared to other regions in Europe. Pirenne discusses the importance of trade and commerce in transforming these territories, which were previously agricultural and rural, into bustling economic hubs. He outlines the significant influence of local governance structures, defined by a mix of military necessity and trade, leading to the formation of cities. As the chapter unfolds, it begins to delineate the emergence of a merchant class and the transformative role of gilde (guilds) in establishing a new urban social order. Overall, the initial sections set the groundwork for a detailed exploration of the unique political and social dynamics that shaped the historical landscape of the Netherlands. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Ernest Flammarion, 1910
653 _aCities and towns -- Belgium
653 _aBelgium -- Politics and government
653 _aCities and towns -- Netherlands
653 _aNetherlands -- Politics and government
653 _aCities and towns -- France -- Nord-Pas-de-Calais
653 _aNord-Pas-de-Calais (France) -- Politics and government
830 0 _aBibliothèque de Philosophie scientifique
856 4 _uhttps://books.google.com/books?id=fyxEAAAAcAAJ
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74562
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