Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin B. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Rock N Roll

Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Youth Behavior ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
The 1960S

Binge drinking and illicit sex were just as common in the Dutch Golden Age as they are today, if not more so. Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age is a compelling narrative about the generation of young men that came of age in the Dutch Republic during the economic boom of the early seventeenth century. Contrary to their parents' wishes, the younger generation grew up in luxury and wore extravagant clothing, grew their hair long, and squandered their time drinking and smoking. They created a new youth culture with many excesses; one that we today associate with the counterculture generation of the 1960s. With his engaging storytelling style and humorous anecdotes, Roberts convincingly reveals that deviant male youth behavior is common to all times, especially periods when youngsters have too much money and too much free time on their hands.

Representing Female Labour at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-33
Author(s):  
Jennifer Spinks ◽  
Susan Broomhall
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
Dutch Golden Age

Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Sundberg
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Scale Of Response ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Dutch Experience

By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. The end of this Golden Age was also an era of natural disasters. Between the late seventeenth and the mid-eighteenth century, Dutch communities weathered numerous calamities, including river and coastal floods, cattle plagues, and an outbreak of strange mollusks that threatened the literal foundations of the Republic. Adam Sundberg demonstrates that these disasters emerged out of longstanding changes in environment and society. They were also fundamental to the Dutch experience and understanding of eighteenth-century decline. Disasters provoked widespread suffering, but they also opened opportunities to retool management strategies, expand the scale of response, and to reconsider the ultimate meaning of catastrophe. This book reveals a dynamic and often resilient picture of a society coping with calamity at odds with historical assessments of eighteenth-century stagnation.

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