world trade had run through the marshlands of Holland before it tilted further to the English Southwest. As visitors pulled …

Chapter 1: Introduction. Women’s work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch … -- Chapter 5: Contrasting consumption: Household income and living standards in the Netherlands and Java, 1870-1940 -- Chapter 6 …‘This book makes an important contribution to the history of household labour relations in two contrasting societies …

Netherlands have witnessed a gradual disappearance of characteristically rural landscapes and a deterioration of biodiversity … more pertinent. This comprehensive review of rural policy in the Netherlands examines the character of rural areas in the … Netherlands and how they have evolved. It then examines rural policies and their decentralisation, rural land use planning, and …

Rather than pursuing e-government as an end in itself, the Netherlands is seeking to use ICT tools to reduce … administrative burdens and improve service delivery. Internationally, the Netherlands is at the forefront of administrative burden …

Worldwide, the indelible image of the Netherlands is the tulip. But the tulip is not alone: flowers of all kinds have … long been a key part of both the Dutch identity and the Dutch economy, and in Holland Flowering, Andrew Gebhardt offers a …