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Tom explicitly references this book as 'the great kind of modern history in English of the Dutch Golden Age' and quotes a passage from it about Flemish gambling culture and how Amsterdam inherited this trait from Antwerp.

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Tom explicitly mentions this as 'the book that got me interested in it' regarding Dutch history, noting it was Schama's first great book from the late 80s and that he read it at university. He describes it as 'a brilliant portrait of the Dutch Republic in its golden age' and references it multiple times throughout the episode.