Empire Style

Jan de Vries Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and co-author The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815 (Cambridge University Press 1997) on the Dutch Empire and its lessons for the U.S. and Maarten van Rossem Professor of History and American Studies at Utrecht University and author (in Dutch): America: For and Against(2002) on Dutch attitudes toward the U.S. and the two imperial powers