Chapter 9 of the Bourgeois Revaluation:
The Dutch Preached Bourgeois Virtue
March 17th, 2011
What made such talk conceivable was the “rise” of the bourgeoisie in northwestern Europe. Numbers rose, true. But the rise was more than a matter of numbers. It was a rise in dignity, accompanied by public opinion, and of liberty, accompanied by revolution. The rise happened in the Netherlands especially, and the Netherlands was the (more…)
