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Civic Duty : Public Services in the Early Modern Low Countries
ISBN: 9781443835343
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Environmental Studies; Business/ Management; Political Science;

This study offers a new a view on public services in the early modern Low Countries and answers the following questions: who provided public facilities in urban communities and in which ways did public amenities change in the period between 1500 and 1800? It throws light on the ways in which responsibilities were shared between city dwellers and the factors which influenced the allocation and reallocation of public services between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The present study loo...