An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 18001920 ... - 9780521782951

An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, 18001920Demographic, Economic and Social Transition\nAuthor(s): Michael Wintle\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521782951, 978-0521782951\nSynopsis\nAn Economic and Social History of the Netherlands, [tel] provides a comprehensive account of Dutch history from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, examining population and health, the economy, and socio-political history. The Dutch experience in this period is fascinating and instructive: the country saw extremely rapid population growth, awesome death rates, staggering fertility, some of the fastest economic growth in the world, a uniquely large and efficient service sector, a vast and profitable overseas empire, characteristic 'pillarization', and relative tolerance. Michael Wintle also examines the lives of ordinary people: what they ate, how much they earned, what they thought .