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View from the Top: Maritime trade, empires and insurance in Holland and the UK

Elbert-Jan Offereins

The 17th century saw the Dutch and the English competing for control over the seas and trade routes, which both countries rightly saw as fundamental to their economic and political standing.

For reasons of geography both were maritime nations and saw opportunities for profit in trading both regionally and further afield. Against that background it is perhaps not surprising that both

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