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Author Unger, Richard W

Title A history of brewing in Holland, 900-1900 : economy, technology, and the state / by Richard W. Unger
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 428 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Table of contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction -- Holland and Beer; Chapter One -- Brewing in the Early Middle Ages; Chapter Two -- The Medieval Transformation; Chapter Three -- The Scale of the Industry in its Golden Age, 1450-1650; Chapter Four -- Technology, Raw Materials, and the Seasons of Brewing; Chapter Five -- Taxes, Profits, and Women's Work; Chapter Six -- Investment, Concentration, and Protection; Chapter Seven -- Guilds before 1620; Chapter Eight -- The Data of Decline, 1600-1800
Summary "This book offers a comprehensive history of brewing in Holland from the beginnings of large scale production at the end of the first millennium through medieval expansion, the boom of the Renaissance, and the disastrous decline of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It closes with the revival of the industry in the era of industrialization." "Major technical innovations, from Germany, in the fourteenth and again in the nineteenth century, made it possible for brewing to take a leading role in the Dutch economy. The adaptation of those improvements went on always under the careful supervision of the state." "Relying on the extensive records of urban and provincial governments the author traces the cooperation as well as tension between brewers and public authorities spanning one thousand years."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-419) and index
Notes English
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Subject Beer -- Netherlands -- History
Brewing.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
Beer
Brewing
Brauwirtschaft
Bierbrouwerijen.
Economische aspecten.
Technologie.
Bestuurlijke aspecten.
Industrie.
Gilden.
Netherlands
Niederlande
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1417536756
9781417536757
9047400798
9789047400790
9789004120372
9004120378
9786610464623
6610464626