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Trading centers such as London and Amsterdam could only flourish (as Voltaire would later write home enthusiastically) because Catholics could trade with Jews and Huguenots, and Lutherans with Muslims, and because they all knew that they could by and large trust one another—and the laws protecting them all.
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
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