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Recente historiografische trends in het onderzoek naar stedelijke financiën in de Nederlanden 1 The town's money. Recent trends in the historiography on urban finances in the Low Countries The authors point to three trends in the recent historiography on urban finances in the Low Countries. The first trend discusses the institutional arrangements and the financial policy of the urban authorities, including the relationship between town and central state. The second focuses on economic topics, such as wages, prices, economic development, the standard of living and urban enterprises. The third trend examines the socioeconomic relations between the burghers themselves and deals with the composition of urban elites and collective action, among others. For long, the historiography on these topics has been dominated by studies on the southern Netherlands and Belgium, but recently historians in the northern Netherlands have started to fill some of the gaps. Finally, the authors introduce the four contributions that follow in this special issue on urban finances. 4 » Marjolein 't Hart en Manon van der Heijden

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