The Accounts of the 'Society of The Hague', 1587-1802

This dataset contains information on the bureaucratization of local government of The Hague in the period 1588-1797. It studies the accounts of the 'Sociëteit van 's-Gravenhage'. This society was the result of collaboration of important governmentbodies as the 'Hoge Raad' (Supreme Court), the ' Hof van Holland' (the Court), the 'Rekenkamer der Grafelijkheidsdomeinen' (the exchequer) and the 'Ambachtbestuur van Den Haag'. The Society collected taxes for these organizations. The dataset consist of three data collections. The first data collection is a collection of annual balance sheets of the Society, dating from 1588 until 1666. The second data collection is a collection of annual balance sheets of the Society, dating from 1718 until 1797. The last data collection is an overview of meeting frequency of the Society.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-znv-m4ap
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-m02-aqp
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:42674
Provenance
Creator Dr. F.P. Wagenaar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Afdeling Bestuur & Organisatie
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Publication Year 2007
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; DANS License; https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf
OpenAccess false
Representation
Language Dutch; Flemish
Resource Type Dataset
Format Microsoft Excel; other; spss; unknown
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Netherlands; The Hague