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Cover illustration: Excerpt from the frontispiece of Henry Stubbe’s A Further Iustification of the Present War against the United Netherlands, Illustrated with Several Sculptures, 1673. Artist: William Sherwin. Dutch ambassador Hiëronymus Beverningk presents a petition for peace to the British. Courtesy Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (collection item RP-P-OB-77.056).
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Names: Tol, Joris van den, author.
Title: Lobbying in company : economic interests and political decision making in the history of Dutch Brazil, 1621-1656 / Joris van den Tol.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: The Atlantic world Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, 1570-0542 ; volume 38 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This book focuses on the history of the WIC in Brazil in order to study the role of lobbying for political decision making in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, and argues that lobbying was the primary tool for people to implement, shape, and maintain institutions. Considering this impact, it is astonishing that lobbying has been underappreciated and regularly neglected by historians of all sub-disciplines”– Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020030459 | ISBN 9789004397958 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004440579 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands) | Lobbying–Brazil– History–17th century. | Lobbying–Netherlands–History–17th century.
Classification: LCC HF483.W6 T65 2021 | DDC 382.0981–dc23
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