The Dutch Revolt Was Europe’s First Bourgeois Revolution

In the late sixteenth century, the Netherlands revolted against Spanish rule in a decades-long struggle that gave birth to the Dutch Republic. Although the initial spark for the revolt was religious, it helped pave the way for the rise of capitalism. Antonis Aloisius Emanuël van Bedaff (1787–1829),.

Antonis Aloisius Emanuël van Bedaff (1787–1829),.