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From bikes to brown cafés, here’s what to see and do on a trip to the Netherlands’ capital. It’s one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world – so much so that there is currently no marketing budget for the Netherlands capital city. It simply doesn’t need it; visitors still arrive by the…
Is Holland a land of wine and oil? The great American writer Motley once couched his opinion on our agriculture and cattle-rearing in the following typical terms: “Their cattle grazing on the bottom of the sea are the finest in Europe, their agricultural produce is of more exchangeable value than if Nature had made their…
The Dutch influence on American history came in three ways. In the first place, refugees from the despotism of the Burgundian and Spanish rulers of the Netherlands and from the religious tyranny of their own people sought shelter in England; they helped to modify the institutions of their adopted home, and some of their children…
Well might such a country as that of the Netherland Republic astonish an Englishman in the days of the Stuarts. Looking at its vast commerce, its multifarious manufactures, its enterprising population, its intelligent agriculture, its banks, hospitals, and prisons, its superb town – halls, and its private dwellings filled with the choicest paintings, one can…
Mediaeval capitalism, precocious and adventurous as it was, was sporadic in incidence. Its progress was hampered by forms of wealth difficult to negotiate. Markets were small, and the spirit which dominated them was local and exclusive. Industry shared this localism of outlook; it was generally decentralized in organization, and its tools and techniques, however, serviceable…
Norms point decision-makers in the direction of solutions that are considered effective and sensible by the relevant audience. They are templates that sort out how to assess a new situation and what kind of action to take. State leaders rely on norms to diagnose a situation and design an action plan in congruence with national…
When foreigners visit the Netherlands today, certain items seem invariably to stand on their touristic agenda: the Rijksmuseum, Anne Frank’s house, a boat ride through the canals. One of the more remarkable items is a walk through Amsterdam’s red light district, where, on a typical summer evening, in addition to the clientele, thousands of foreigners…