Dear #dutch#historians
This brooch belonged to a dutch policeman who acted against the German occupation in the 1940s.
Can anyone say, whether this was part of a uniform, a personal belonging or else?
Dear #dutch#historians This belt buckle belonged to a dutch policeman who acted against the German occupation in the 1940s.
Can anyone say, whether this was part of a uniform, a personal belonging or else?
"The experiment begun in 1492 was accompanied by a new relationship with the world and with each other, based on the novel idea that the prosperity of human societies lay in the submission of a wild and free nature to the rational act of exploitation. From then on, the entire living world was put to work, and in this first planetary empire, people, plants and animals became commodities circulating from one corner of the hemisphere to the other."
wrote Sylvie Laurent in her book "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
The authors note, ‘the desire for a new variety of goods led to gradual changes in the behaviour of ordinary households in Western Europe’. Gradually, in order to afford the now accessible luxury of sugar, the subsistence economy was abandoned in favour of wage labour. People accepted working longer and harder to acquire these goods, which, according to accounts from the late 18th century, had become essential needs.