Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail 1600-1714: Design, ...
James Bander
1 I am grateful to Frank Fox and Dr Gijs Rommelse for commenting on an earlier draft of this introduction. 2 J Israel, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806 (Oxford, 1995), 1–5. For the regents and merchant elites, see ...