LL-L "History" 2005.05.03 (03) [E]

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2005.05.02 (05) [E]

Dag Pat

I don't know an economic historian about this - in fact, I don't know any
economic historian, unlike you, I haven't been enlightened yet on this
subject.
But I suspect it may have to do something with religion. First of all, the
Calvinist protestants were very industrious and thrifty, what can yield a
lot of money. But more important may have been the enormous immigration of
Calvinists into the Northern Netherlands (i.e the present day country the
Netherlands) from the South - i.e what is now Dutch speaking Belgium:
Flandria & Brabant. In Holland and Zeeland, almost half of the population
in cities like Leiden, Middelburg and many others, were protestant
immigrants from the South, including French Huguenots, fleeing for the
Roman Catholic inquisition in their Spanish occupied homelands.
And many of those were rich. Before that, the economic main area was
Flandria/Brabant, but this shifted complety to Holland.

But maybe other Dutch or Belgium lllisters know more about this, and can
answer your question better?

Ingmar

>Pat Reynolds >
>
>I've been wondering for some time about the presence of capital in the
>early modern Low Countries.  My most recent reading (see previous post)
>on the way that Lowlanders (may have) financed the conversion to sugar
>culture in the Caribbean prompts me to this again.
>
>The early modern Low Countries seem to have had a lot of liquid assets:
>money to invest in the industrialisation of crops in the Caribbean,
>money to rebuild churches and houses in the Republic, money to contract
>soldiers to create the Republic ....
>
>Could anyone point me at an economic historian who looks at this?  I'd
>prefer it to be in English, but can cope with Dutch (I've just finished
>Soly's volume on van Schoonbeke, so have my hour-a-day with a Dutch book
>free).

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