Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam, presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century. Traditionally, this shift has been accepted as the natural consequence of a dynamic and pro[...]

Die Erzählerin lässt als Mutter dreier Teenager die Tür zu ihrer Pariser Wohnung immer offen; jeder kann kommen und gehen wann er will.[...]