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The secret of Amsterdam
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Mulsow, Martin |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | At the end of July 1688, Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, suddenly and unexpectedly set off for Amsterdam.$ ^{1}$ He stayed there for a month, and then returned home by a circuitous route. What had he been doing in Amsterdam? In order to answer this question, it will be necessary to unravel a complicated network of activities: speculation on the stock market and trading in wood, hiring out troops and buying works of art, political negotiations and experiments in alchemy. We will have to establish the precise communicative radius of each of these activities (what was 'public', what was secret, what was top secret?), the political and economic strategies behind them, and the emotional or affective components that accompanied these strategies. We will see that at the heart of these activities, highly charged with expectations, lay the quest for practical knowledge of how to create gold. And this gold was to be used to support all the rest: increasing the number of troops, acquiring land, buying raw materials, and ultimately, exerting political influence. Book Name: Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2018-0-94123-1&isbn=9780429270222&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 140 |
| Page Count | 30 |
| Starting Page | 111 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429270222-5 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-12-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies International Relations |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
