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15. On the history of diamonds, see Harry Emanuel, Diamonds and Precious Stones, 2nd ed. (London: John Camden Hotten, 1867), pp. 53-55, 79-80, 84; Edward Jay Epstein, The Rise and Fall of Diamonds (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), pp. 76-77, 103—4; Godehard Lenzen, The History of Diamond Production and the Diamond Trade (London: Barrie and Jenkins), pp. 32-34; Gedalia Yogev, Diamonds and Coral: Anglo-Dutch Jews and Eighteenth-Century Trade (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1978), pp. 154-55. On Antwerp in the sixteenth century, see Grattan, Holland, p. 94; Wallerstein, Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy, pp. 175-76.
16. Israel, Empires and Entrepots, pp. 417-18, 422, 425-28, 432-35, 444-46; Kaplan, “The Jews in the Republic Until About 1750,” pp. 14619.
17. See Israel, Empires and Entrepots, pp. 356, 417-22, 426, 433-34.
18. C. R. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965), pp. xx-xxi, 2-3; Israel, The Dutch Republic, pp. 22-23, 104, 116, 146-47, 193-94, 308-9, 311, 344-45, 349-50, 413; Wilson, The Dutch Republic, pp. 8-9.
19. Karel Davids, “Shifts of Technological Leadership in Early Modern Europe,” in A Miracle Mirrored, chap. 11; Israel, The Dutch Republic, pp. 16, 18, 116-17, 316, 348-50; Van Zanden, The Rise and Decline of Holland's Economy, pp. 30-36; Wallerstein, Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, pp. 3912, 46 (quoting Daniel Defoe); Wilson, The Dutch Republic, pp. 30-31.
20. Israel, The Dutch Republic, pp. 311-13, 316-18, 320-21, 326, 34516, 350; Wallerstein, Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, pp. 50-55.
21. Israel, The Dutch Republic, pp. 319-24, 344-48, 380-82; Wallerstein, Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, pp. 48-51.
22. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800, pp. 114-15.
23. Grattan, Holland, pp. 215-16; Israel, The Dutch Republic, pp. 244-45, 262-71, 322-27, 399105, 934; Israel, Empires and Entrepots, pp. 199-204; Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World, pp. 24-33; Wallerstein, Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, pp. 64-65 & 65n.l69.
24. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800, p. xxi; Israel, The Dutch Republic, pp. 326, 93410; Israel, Empires and Entrepots, pp. 419, 424-25, 430-33, 43710, 443-44; Wallerstein, Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, pp. 50-51.
25. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800, p. 27. The list of unloaded luxury goods is from Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches, pp. 346-47.
26. In this section I draw heavily on chaps. 3 and 5 of Simon Schama's The Embarrassment of Riches, especially pp. 295-304. On the Dutch Republic's relatively high standard of living, see pp. 322-23 of Schama's book and Israel, The Dutch Republic, pp. 351-53, 622-24, 630-33. William Temple's quote on Dutch parsimony can be found at Peter Spufford, “Access to Credit and Capital in the Commercial Centers of Europe,” in A Miracle Mirrored, p. 316.
27. Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches, pp. 150-52, 174-75, 182-85, 189, 191,196,198,200.
28. Ibid., pp. 182-85, 191-92, 194-95, 197.
29. Israel, The Dutch Republic, pp. 627-30, 677; Van Zanden, The Rise and Decline of Holland's Economy, pp. 50-52, 62-63; Wallerstein, Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, pp. 45, 64-67; Wilson, The Dutch Republic, p. 165-67.
30. Wilson, The Dutch Republic, pp. 60-64, 118-24, 165-77. The quote from Descartes is from Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800, p. 184.
31. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800, pp. xx-xxi; Israel, The Dutch Republic, pp. 267-71, 796-97, 812-14, 825; Wallerstein, Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, pp. 64-65