Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Plates -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction -- Part I Demography, and the health of the nation -- 1 Demographic indicators -- 1.1 Population increase and vital statistics -- The 'demographic transition' -- 1.2 Explaining the decline in mortality -- Water and mortality -- Breastfeeding and mortality -- 1.3 Marriage and fertility -- 1.4 Regional differences -- 1.5 The Dutch demographic experience -- 1.6 Migration -- Internal migration -- Urbanization -- International migration -- Migration evaluated -- 1.7 Conclusion -- 2 The condition of the people: public health, diet and nutrition -- 2.1 The public health environment -- 2.2 Medical services -- 2.3 Cause of death -- Epidemics -- Harvest failures -- 2.4 The food supply -- The price of food -- 2.5 The Dutch diet -- Liquid refreshment -- Estimated food consumption -- Nutrition levels -- 2.6 Working conditions -- 2.7 Conclusion -- Part II Economic transition -- Introduction -- 3 Economic performance and industrialization: the Dutch debate -- 3.1 The Dutch compared to their neighbours in terms of GNP -- 3.2 Industrialization and the Dutch debate -- A modest manufacturing sector -- Timing and take-off -- 3.3 Between two peaks? Transition from the Golden Age to the EEC -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Factor inputs: labour, capital, materials -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The factor labour -- The growth of the labour force -- The quality of labour -- The cost of labour: nominal wages -- Regional wage differentials -- Explanations for and effects of high wages -- 4.3 The factor capital -- Capital stock -- Capital starvation? -- Financial institutions -- Interest rates -- The destination of capital -- 'Investor mentality' -- Prolongatie -- Traditional sources of finance -- Government funding -- Limited companies -- Banks.

The role of capital in the Dutch economy -- 4.4 Factor inputs: materials -- Mineral deposits -- Land -- The energy industries -- Materials and economic development -- Coal and economic development -- Conclusion -- 4.5 The role of labour, capital and materials -- 5 Economic influences: entrepreneurship, technology and government policy -- 5.1 Entrepreneurship -- 5.2 Technology -- Steam power -- The engineering industry -- Technology evaluated -- 5.3 Government policy -- Public finances and the national debt -- Currency and banking -- Taxation -- Laissez-faire ideology -- Government and trade -- Government and industry -- Government and agriculture -- Centralization -- 5.4 Conclusion: the role of organizational inputs -- 6 Sectoral analysis -- 6.1 Introduction: the distribution of the labour force -- 6.2 The primary sector -- Fishing -- Woodland -- Agriculture -- 6.3 The secondary sector -- 6.4 The tertiary sector -- The dynamics of a sector -- Trade -- Transport -- Other services -- The role of the tertiary sector -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7 Features of demand -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The colonies as an economic stimulus -- 7.3 Population growth and economic growth -- 7.4 Domestic per-capita demand -- Introduction: the standard of living -- Tax estimates -- The dimensions of cannon-fodder -- Levels of poor relief -- Real wages -- Per-capita demand evaluated -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8 Economic transition: conclusion -- 8.1 Summary of findings on the economy -- 8.2 Characteristics -- 8.3 Retardation? -- 8.4 Typologies of industrialization -- Part III Social transition: state, society, individual and nation -- Introduction -- 9 Authority and representation: the citizen and the state -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Democratization -- 9.3 Liberalism -- 9.4 Tolerance and verzuiling -- 9.5 Conclusion -- 10 Education and welfare: empowerment and protection.

10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Education -- Participation, literacy and skills -- The religious content of primary education -- Education: agent of radicalization and integration -- 10.3 The state in service: the evolution of social legislation -- Poor relief -- Labour laws and industrial arbitration -- Public expenditure -- The beginnings of a welfare state -- 10.4 Conclusion -- 11 Loyal subjects: state formation and nation formation -- 11.1 Internal colonization: the osmosis of state and nation -- 11.2 The nation abroad -- 11.3 Conclusion -- 12 Social groups -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Social stratification -- Elites -- Petite bourgeoisie -- The working class -- Conclusion -- 12.3 The pillars and other ideological groups -- The coming of mass politics -- Secularization and religion -- Secular groupings -- 12.4 Groups based on gender and sexuality -- Women -- Attitudes to sex -- The family relationship -- 12.5 Ethnic groups -- 12.6 Conclusion -- General conclusion -- Bibliography -- ARCHIVE SOURCES -- PRINTED WORKS -- Index.