| has gloss | eng: The economic history of the Netherlands (1500–1815) is the history of an economy that some consider to be the first "modern" economy, continuously existing to this day. It covers the period from the time in which the geographic area currently known as The Netherlands first came together as a political entity (the Habsburg Netherlands), through the era of the Dutch Republic, and its immediate successors, the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland, to the temporary demise of that political entity, when the Netherlands were annexed by the First French Empire. It is intended as a companion to the political and military (including naval) histories of the Netherlands, that cover the same period, and will provide the economic background to put these in the proper perspective. |
