Age of Ice and Fire: The General Crisis Of The Seventeenth Century
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The Treaty of Westphalia Was Not Toleration
The dutch state was not as entirely tolerant as we might think in retrospect. It took on disputes that it considered to be existentially important, while strategically ign ring violations of religious law that it just didn't want to deal with. And the colony of new netherlands that later became new york was, in a sense, the the hotbed of this kind of dutch laxity That became a sort of defacto tolerance.
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