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Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel. The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xv + 377 pp. ISBN 0-691-11438-2, $55.00 (cloth).
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The economic history of the Netherlands during the nineteenth century demonstrates some remarkable features when compared with other countries such as the United Kingdom or Belgium. Dutch industrialization is "slow," "late," and even "different," often attributed to a lack of natural resources (like coal and ore) and/or entrepreneurial spirit. This protracted development generated some debate between Dutch historians, but no consensus was reached until the publication in 1968 of J. A. de Jonge’s book on Dutch industrialization between 1850 and
Erasmus University, Rotterdam