#  Fencing the Garden of Holland: City power and peasants’ sorrow in the Dutch Revolt (Erasmus Lecture Series Part I) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 4, 2020** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 125, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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 **Speaker: [Pepijn Brandon](/people/pepijn-brandon)**

 The Dutch Revolt is still seen primarily as an urban affair. Its result was the establishment of a republican state dominated by urban merchants who from the security of “Holland’s Garden” managed to branch out into the seventeenth-century world. Recent historiography, however, has convincingly shown that especially the peasantry paid a high price for Dutch success in its War of Independence. The central argument of this lecture is that Dutch peasants not simply suffered the customary consequences of early-modern warfare, but also a ruthlessly efficient, city led campaign for the capitalist transformation of the countryside.

 [Part II](/event/burgherly-life-banda-islands%C2%A0land-labor-and-ecology-1621-genocide-erasmus-lecture?delta=0) of the lecture series will be held on March 4, 12pm to 1pm. [Part III ](/event/plantation-violence-and-imaginary%C2%A0order-gardens-suriname-and-amsterdam-erasmus-lecture?delta=0)will be held on April 29, 12pm to 1pm.



 

 

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