Almena Liberia Editorial, 2018. — 91 p. Puede haber pocas dudas de que, aunque ya llevaba una larga carrera militar a sus espaldas, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo es principalmente conocido a nivel europeo por su periodo de mando en los Países Bajos. Enviado allí inicialmente para poco tiempo, debió pasar seis años desempeñando una labor política para la que no estaba preparado;...
Amsterdam University Press, 2006. — 426 p. An insightful account of the challenges of neutrality in an era of total war, The Art of Staying Neutral shows how the Netherlands remained peaceful throughout World War I. This sustained neutrality, Maartje Abbenhuis demonstrates, was the result of many factors, including masterly diplomacy, careful adherence to international laws and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 352 p. In 1602, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the first commercial company, the Dutch East India Company, and, in so doing, initiated a new wave of globalization. Even though Dutch engagement in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans dates back to the 16th century, it was the dawn of the 17th century that brought the...
Arnemuiden: Editie Aarnoud de Hamer, 2011. — 1710 p. Angemerct die grote diligencye ende naersticheit der geenre die croniken ende historien gescreven hebben onder den Joeden, Griecken, ende Romeynen ende andere bescriveren der historien ende vele andere landen, die welke die dingen, feyten ende gesten die geschiet sijn in horen dagen ende tiden vlytelicken bescreven ende verwaert...
Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1976. — 466 s. Książka historyczna, ale z bogatym rysem kulturowym, społecznym i geograficznym. Historia Holandii w bardzo przystępnej formie.
Barnsley: Pen & Sword History, 2017. — 206 p., maps. With the Netherlands overrun by French Republican forces, the British and Russian governments sent an allied army of 48,000 men under the Duke of York to liberate the country and restore the House of Orange. The largest operation mounted by Pitt's ministry during the French Revolutionary Wars, the amphibious expedition involved...
Littman Library of Jewish, 2012. — 590 p. Early modern Amsterdam was a prosperous city renowned for its relative tolerance, and many people hoping for a better future - away from persecution, wars, and economic malaise - chose to make a new life there. Conversos and Jews from many countries were among them, attracted by the reputed wealth and benevolence of the Portuguese Jews...
Den Haag: Sectie Militaire Geschiedenis, 2001. — 400 p. De onderofficier staat bekend als de ruggengraat van de krijgsmacht. Zijn werkterrein bevindt zich tussen de officieren en de soldaten. In het kader van het vijftigjarig (naoorlogse) bestaan van de Koninklijke Militaire School te Weert, het instituut dat verantwoordelijk is voor de opleiding van de moderne onderofficier,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. — 573 p. The VOC (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company) was the largest of the early modern European trading companies operating in Asia. Its operations produced not only warehouses packed with spices, coffee, tea, textiles, porcelain and silk, but also shiploads of documents. Data on political, economic, cultural,...
Berghahn Books, 2006. — 536 p. The history of the smaller European countries is rather neglected in the teaching of European history at university level. We are therefore pleased to announce the publication of the first comprehensive history of the Low Countries - in English - from Roman Times to the present. Remaining politically and culturally fragmented, with its inhabitants...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 312 p. Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.
Routledge, 2019. — 262 p. This book shows how the Dutch accumulation of great wealth was closely linked to their involvement in warfare. By charting Dutch activity across the globe, it explores Dutch participation in the international arms trade, and in wars both at home and abroad. In doing so, it ponders the issue of how capitalism has often historically thrived best when its...
Boduszyńska-Borowikowa Maria (tr.). — Gdańsk, Wydawnictwo Morskie, 1980. — 346 s. Książka jest monografią naukową, ale napisaną w sposób tak przejrzysty i atrakcyjny, że może zainteresować szerokie kręgi czytelników. Autor przedstawia rozkwit i upadek holenderskiego imperium kolonialno-handlowego, a także rozwój tak zwanej Republiki Zjednoczonych Prowincji, począwszy od...
London, Hutchinson of London, 1977. — 326 p. Despite ceaseless conflict between different classes and cities, Holland's rise to powerwas almost miraculously rapid. In a few short years a tiny country gained control of territory from Indonesia to the West Indies, from South Africa to South America. In this marvellously evocative book Professor Boxer recaptures the scenes of...
Variorum Reprints, 1988. — 352 p. For nearly two centuries the VOC (the Dutch acronym for the United East India Company of the Netherlands, 1602-1795) was the greatest mercantile corporation in the world; a massive private organization which confessedly had great trade as its compass and profit as its motive.
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 255 p. — (The Northern World 22).
In the absence of a powerful state, how was coercive power established within, over, and by the cities of the Low Countries? Eleven chapters covering the medieval and early modern periods explore this theme from various angles. Some chapters detail symbolic contests or armed struggle, while others focus on...
University of Amsterdam Press, 2013. — 399 p. The Republic itself was born from a long and ultimately victorious struggle against the Spanish Habsburg Empire. During the seventeenth century it fought every major competing power in a ‘war without end’. In the nearly two centuries between 1600 and 1795, the Dutch Republic was at war for fifty-two years with Spain, forty-four...
Brill, 2015. — 461 p. — (Historical Materialism 101). In War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795), Pepijn Brandon traces the interaction between state and capital in the organisation of warfare in the Dutch Republic from the Dutch Revolt of the sixteenth century to the Batavian Revolution of 1795. Combining deep theoretical insight with a thorough examination of original...
Routledge, 2016. — 364 p. Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the...
Springer Netherlands, 1979. — 634 p. This book presents tables which give a virtually complete survey of the direct ship ping between the Netherlands and Asia between 1595-1795. This period contains, first, the voyages of the so-called Voorcompagnieen and, then, those for and under control of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC). The survey ends in 1795. That year saw an...
Companhia das Letras, 2011. — 502 p. João Maurício de Nassau-Siegen foi um governante, no Brasil do século XVII, de qualidades excepcionais. Nobre de origem alemã, teve formação humanista da melhor qualidade. Na guerra, era um militar temperado, e conhecia a fundo arquitetura, história e artes plásticas. Nomeado pela Companhia das Índias Ocidentais, uma empresa de comércio...
1642. — 35 p. В данном памфлете, датированном 1642 годом, содержится ряд предложений по увеличению прибыли Голландской Вест-Индской компании в целях увеличения дивидендов ее акционеров. Компания была учреждена в 1621 году согласно хартии, выданной Генеральными Штатами, главным органом управления Объединенных провинций Нидерландов. Как и Голландская Ост-Индская компания,...
AUP Wetenschappelijk, 2011. — 416 p. Het beleg van 's-Hertogenbosch en de veldtocht van 1629 hebben in de Nederlandse geschiedschrijving een plaats gekregen als een van de meest roemruchte gebeurtenissen van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Het beeld en de interpretaties zijn de afgelopen decennia echter nauwelijks veranderd: vooral de internationale betekenis en het verhaal van de...
Brill, 2019. — xx, 564 p. — (Studies on Modern East Asian History 2). In this meticulously researched volume, Vincent Chang resurrects a near forgotten yet pivotal chapter of Dutch-Chinese ties to narrate how World War II, the civil war in China, and Indonesia’s decolonization redefined and remade this age-old bilateral relationship. Drawing on a unique range of hitherto...
Charles River Editors Press, 2016. — 68 p. From classic grilled meat to exotic and savory 5-star dishes, pepper has long been the ultimate staple spice. While bulk pepper may be readily stocked in supermarkets and convenience stores today, there was once a time when the common spice was considered one of the most valuable commodities in the world. Merchants tripped over one...
Brill, 2014. — 467 p. — (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 291). Trading enterprise figures prominently in Indonesian history. Commercial activities penetrated deep into the economy, politics and society of the former Netherlands Indies. Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes this, largely forgotten, world of commerce....
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 350 p. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dozens of alliances asserting shared sovereignty formed in the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries. Many accounts of state formation struggle to explain these leagues, since they characterize state formation as a process of internal bureaucratization within individual states. This...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 235 p. This book is a study of the relationship between ideology and social behaviour. Professor Crew analyses the attitudes and characters of the Calvinist ministers who preached in the Netherlands in the mid-sixteenth century and their effect on the popular religious upheavals which occurred during the summer of 1566. The hedge-preaching...
Routledge, 2019. — 326 p. This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, socio-cultural and political way. While the urban community...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 264 p. — (Habsburg Worlds 2). The early modern world was one of movement, contact, and exchange. Yet, this does not mean that it was borderless. On the contrary, connection existed only when people moved along and across the separations between polities, religions, and mentalities. So in order to understand early modern...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 272 p. — (Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World 12). Despite surging interest in early modern pamphlets, political historians of the Dutch Republic, arguably the frontrunner in pamphleteering, have yet to explore their nature and relevance in depth. Rather than treating pamphlets as reflecting public opinion, or dismissing them as...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 384 p. Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century...
Springer Netherlands, 1975. — 201 p. Volume VIII of Acta Historiae Neerlandicae again presents studies on the history of the Low Countries which it is hoped will be of interest to foreign scholars. The intention has been to deal with a fairly long period, and many differing aspects, of the subject. So institutional, political, economic, social and cultural history all receive a...
Brill, 2011. — 447 p. — (Global Economic History Series 8). The late Middle Ages witnessed the transformation of the county of Holland from a peripheral agrarian region to a highly commercialised and urbanised one. This book examines how the organisation of commodity markets contributed to this remarkable development. Comparing Holland to England and Flanders, the book shows...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 400 p. How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colonial power? At the start of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as the centre of a global empire that stretched along the edges of continents and connected societies...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 356 p. — (Caribbean Series 33). In Geweld in de West bieden tien auteurs onder redactie van Victor Enthoven, Henk den Heijer en Han Jordaan een overzicht van het Nederlandse militaire optreden in het Atlantische gebied tussen 1600 en 1800. De verovering van Indiaanse gebieden, de strijd tussen rivaliserende Europese machten en de gewelddadige...
UCL Press, 2016. — 250 p. This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus –...
Routledge, 2012. — 284 p. First published in 1990. The conference on Anglo-Dutch relations from 1940 to 1945, held at University College London on 3, 4 and 5 April 1989, covered a part - not the least interesting nor the simplest part - of the diplomatic and military history of the world war against Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. The historical context of Anglo-Dutch...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 352 p. — ISBN-10: 1107015804; ISBN-13: 978-1107015807. This book explores how the experiences of World War II shaped and transformed Dutch perceptions of their centuries-old empire. Focusing on the work of leading anti-Nazi resisters, Jennifer L. Foray examines how the war forced a rethinking of colonial practices and...
Brill, 2017. — xviii, 430 p. — (Library of Economic History 9). This study offers the first complete overview of the remarkable public finances of the Dutch Republic of the United Provinces. Wantje Fritschy has analysed the development and structure of its public revenue and expenditure. She argues that a ‘tax revolution’ and the ‘fiscal resilience’ of the provinces together...
Springer Science + Business Media B.V., The Hague : M. Nijhoff, 1927. — XII + 160 p. — ISBN: 9401767289 On October 3rd 1574, the town of Leiden, beleaguered by the Spanish enemy, was saved thanks to the inundation of the surrounding countryside, which forced the enemy to withdraw. The inhabitants of the town had suffered from hunger and pestilence and one-third of them had...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 129 p. The Dutch Republic was one of the great European powers during the 17th and 18th centuries. Generally, the Dutch Republic was considered to have lost that status after the Peace of Utrecht (1713); however, when the Republic entered the War of Austrian Succession in 1740, it was able to field an army for over 80,000 men, which expanded to over...
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 309 p. — (Princeton Economic History of the Western World).
Cities of Commerce develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial institutions to the evolving needs of merchants. Oscar Gelderblom traces the successive...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 344 p. This book is a comprehensive study of the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt (1555-1590). It explores the development of the political ideas which motivated and legitimized the Dutch resistance against the government of Philip II in the Low Countries, and which became the ideological foundations of the Dutch Republic as...
Brill, 2018. — xiv, 225 p. — (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700, 10). Patrons of the Old Faith is the first full-length study on the Catholic nobility in the Dutch Republic. Based on a detailed prosopographical analysis and through the examination of their marriage strategies, interaction with Protestants, religiosity and contributions to the Holland Mission, Jaap Geraerts shows...
Amsterdam: De Maatschappy voor goede en goedkoope lectuur, 1913. — 356 s. Zonder Gerard Brandt was Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676) waarschijnlijk nooit een held geworden. Het grootste deel van zijn roem heeft Nederlands grootste admiraal namelijk te danken aan de lijvige biografie Het leven en bedrijf van Michiel de Ruyter uit 1687, waarin Brandt de carrière van de vlootvoogd van...
Phoenix, 2001. — 595 p. A superb panorama of politics and war that brings together two classic volumes by Geyl: The Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609 and The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century 1609-1648. Here is the story of the Netherlanders' epic struggle against Spain's might and the rise of the Dutch Republic--as well as important and still pressing issues about the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2009. — 339 p. This ethnographic study considers the engagement of Dutch fishermen with the limited resources of the marine world, as well as the capricious markets and political interventions that govern the fishing industry from the early eighteenth-century to the present day. More specifically, it focuses on the owner-operators, deckhands,...
University of Chicago Press, 2007. — 425 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-30125-9. In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have...
Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2019. — 500 p. — (Military History of the Netherlands 1). The Eighty Years War offers an insight into the military factors at play in the creation of the Dutch Republic. In 1648 the Spanish empire agreed to a peace treaty that ended decades of fighting and resulted in the division of the Low Countries and the birth of the Republic. From the...
Lugduni Batavorum: Ex officina Ioannis Maire. Annus editionis non specificatur. — 536 p. Exiguum vobis libellum, Nobilissimi atque Amplissimi Patres: imo offert seipse, mole quidem exiguus, at magnus argumento, vester vero totus. Vestrum enim imperium, vestra jura majestatemque defendit.
A Amsterdam: De l'Imprimerie de Iean Blaev. Annee de publications non precisee. — 722 p. Tres - illustres et tres - puissans Seigneurs, Nul de Vous ne revoque en doute, qu entre tous les genres d ecrire, celuy de l Histoire tient le premier rang: chacun de Vous voit avec plaisir les beaux faits de ses ayeuls celebrezpar l Histoire; et il n y a personne de Vous qui ne souhaitte qui...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 227 p. — (The Northern World 14).
This volume looks at the South German merchant community during Antwerp's Golden Age by examining German involvement in the social life of the city as well as by tracing merchants' commercial activities. The first section of the book considers the institutions of trade and the role Germans played in their...
Jovian Press, 2018. — 272 p. First published 1897. When we study the foundation of the United Provinces," says a great French writer, “we learn how a State, from an origin almost unnoticed, rapidly rose into greatness, was formed without design, and in the end belied all human forecast. Those large and wealthy provinces of the mainland which began the revolution – Brabant,...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 249 p. This book is the first full overview of Dutch financial history from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is replete with data and figures drawn from fresh research for the key elements that determined the development of public finance, currency and banking. It provides a step-by-step description of the evolution of the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. — 265 p. Public Offices, Personal Demands presents a novel perspective on European politics in the seventeenth-century. Its focus lies on the Dutch Republic, that surprising anomaly, often described as a miracle or enigma, admired by many during this age. This collection of essays explores one of the most fundamental questions of...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 450 p. During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power in Europe, with global trading interests. It nurtured some of the period's greatest luminaries, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Descartes and Spinoza. Long celebrated for its religious tolerance, artistic innovation and economic modernity,...
UCL Press, 2016. — 314 p. This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the 16th and 17th centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted in the radically new conditions – political, economic and...
Brill, 2019. — xvi, 310 p.; 15 ills. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 298). In 1679 Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) was banished from the province of Holland. Why was this humanist scholar exiled from one of the most tolerant parts of Europe in the seventeenth century? To answer this question, this book places Beverland’s writings on sex, sin, and scholarship in their...
Brepols, 2018. — 406 p. — (The Medieval Countryside 20). Village communities were the heart of the medieval countryside. But how did they operate? This book seeks to find some answers to that question by focusing on late medieval Drenthe, a region situated in a remote corner of the Holy Roman Empire and part of the prince-bishopric of Utrecht. Drenthe was an overwhelmingly...
Fontana Library, 1968. — 288 p. Foreword. Contents. On The Netherlands. Dutch Civilisation in the Seventeenth Century. The Spirit of the Netherlands. The Netherlands as Mediator between Western and Central Europe. On History. Two Wrestlers with the Angel. The Aesthetic Element in Historical Thought. My Path to History. Index.
Mokeham Publishing, 2012. — 110 p. The fourth in a series containing the wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to Canada and the U.S., who survived Nazi occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945, shares stories of how ordinary citizens risked their freedom and ultimately their lives opposing the brutal regime of the occupying forces.
Clarendon Press, 1990. — 484 p. Despite its small size and population, the Dutch Republic functioned as the hub of world trade, shipping, and finance for nearly two early modern centuries. This is the first detailed account of that hegemony from its sixteenth-century origins to the final collapse of the Dutch trading system in the eighteenth century.
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 1261 p. The "Dutch Golden Age", the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers, was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in the history of the world. In this book,...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. — 368 p. — ISBN-10: 0801480507; ISBN-13: 978-0801480508. Following the brilliant "Golden Century," the eighteenth century has seemed to many historians of the Netherlands one of decline and a time when Dutch politics were dominated by foreign influences. Yet this was a period when the Netherlands served as a major publishing center for...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. — 368 p. — ISBN-10: 0801480507; ISBN-13: 978-0801480508. Following the brilliant "Golden Century," the eighteenth century has seemed to many historians of the Netherlands one of decline and a time when Dutch politics were dominated by foreign influences. Yet this was a period when the Netherlands served as a major publishing center for...
Brill, 2004. — 603 p. — (Atlantic World: Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, 3). This volume covers the history of the Dutch colony New Netherland on the North American continent. Based on extensive research of archival material on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, much of which has not been previously used, this work provides the most complete overview yet of a colony...
Harper Collins, 2006. — 174 p. In this innovative and engaging work of history, distinguished author Lisa Jardine shows how the first killing by handgun of a head of state had a profound effect on the course of history. The shooting of Prince William of Orange by a French Catholic in 1584 had immediate political consequences: it was a serious setback for the Protestant cause in...
Brill, 2009. — 262 p. — (Studies in Central European Histories 48). — ISBN10 9004176373; ISBN13 9789004176379. Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 472 p. The Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social policies such as cannabis and euthanasia. Yet the historical background for any of these quintessentially Dutch achievements is often unfamiliar to outsiders. This Concise History offers an...
Springer Netherlands, 1983. — 217 p. Physical Description. The Forms Of Cultivation. Native Civilizations. The Portuguese. The Netherlands Towards the End of the 16th Century. The V.O.C. as a Merchant-Monopolist. The V.O.C. as a Sovereign. The Later Period of the V.O.C. The “Bataafsche Republiek” (1795 : 1806). The Kingdom of Holland and the Annexation (1806 : 1811). The...
Brill, 2013. — 336 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 90). The small neutral states of Europe have until now only marginally been included in the historiography of the First World War. This volume deals in depth with The Netherlands, and specifically its war preparations. Being a small country close to the battlefield of the Western Front, it could not be sure its neutrality...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 348 p. The loss of Brazil and New Netherlands were twin blows to Dutch imperial pretensions. Yet the Dutch Atlantic hardly faded into insignificance. Instead, the influence of the Dutch remained, as they were increasingly drawn into the imperial systems of Britain, Spain, and France. In their synthetic and comparative history, Klooster and...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 432 p. In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included...
Leiden University Press, 2024. — 500 p. Wars Overseas focuses on Dutch military actions outside Europe in the early-modern period. Those actions were rooted in the Eighty Years’ War, the conflict between Spain and the northern Netherlands that led to the creation of the independent Dutch Republic. The Republic was determined to trade in tropical products from Asia, Africa and...
Reaktion Books, 2022. — 440 p. An epic account of the House of Orange-Nassau over one hundred and fifty years of European history. Three rulers from the House of Orange-Nassau reigned over the Netherlands from 1813 to 1890: King William I from 1813 to 1840, King William II from 1840 to 1849, and King William III from 1849 to 1890. Theirs is an epic tale of joy and tragedy,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 239 p. This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspective, analysing how ideas and visions of empire took shape in imperial practice from the seventeenth century to the present day. Through a series of case studies, the volume critically unearths deep-rooted conceptions of Dutch imperial...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 257 p. This book examines the social, political, and religious relationships between Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's Golden Age. Although Holland, the largest province of the Dutch Republic, was officially Calvinist, its population was one of the most religiously heterogeneous in early modern Europe. The Catholic Church was...
Brill, 2000. — 260 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 82). Leiden was the second largest city of the early modern Dutch Republic. This city became officially Protestant in 1572, but it took fifty years before the Reformed Church settled completely into the city's polity and society. This was largely due to disagreements between the city's ruling elites and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 236 p. This accessible general history of the Reformation in the Netherlands traces the key developments in the process of reformation - both Protestant and Catholic - across the whole of the Low Countries during the sixteenth century. Synthesizing fifty years' worth of scholarly literature, Christine Kooi focuses particularly on the...
Third Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 498 p. The Kingdom of the Netherlands is a small, but heavily populated country with almost 17 million inhabitants. It is one of the last kingdoms in Europe and in 2015 it celebrated its 200 years anniversary. The Netherlands became a kingdom after the Napoleonic era. During this period it was transformed into a...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018. — 534 p. — Beiträge zur Europäischen Überseegeschichte 105). Durch den Unabhängigkeitskrieg gegen die Spanier (1568–1648) etablierten die Niederländer eine souveräne politische Entität im europäischen Mächtegefüge. Im 17. Jahrhundert richteten die niederländischen Machteliten ihre Strategie auf die globale Beherrschung der maritimen Distributionswege...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012. — 408 p. Between 1899 and 1902 the Dutch public was captivated by the war raging in South Africa between the Boer republics and the British Empire. Dutch popular opinion was on the side of the Boers: these descendants of the seventeenth-century Dutch settlers were perceived as kinsmen, the most tangible result of which was a flood of propaganda...
Leiden University Press, 2017. — 282 p. In the early modern Dutch Republic, three playwrights wrote dramas based on political revolutions that were occurring at that same time in Asia. Reflecting on this remarkable phenomenon, Staging Asia traces the transmission of the stories surrounding the seventeenth-century Asian events and their ultimate appearance in Europe as Dutch...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973. — 310 p. — ISBN-10: 9024751578; ISBN-13: 978-9024751570. The "age of the democratic revolution" 1 in the Dutch Republic cul minated in two revolutions : the aborted Patriot Revolution of 1787 and the more successful Batavian Revolution of 1795. For the United Provinces that age had begun after a series of crises in 1747 and resulted in the...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973. — 310 p. — ISBN-10: 9024751578; ISBN-13: 978-9024751570. The "age of the democratic revolution" 1 in the Dutch Republic cul minated in two revolutions : the aborted Patriot Revolution of 1787 and the more successful Batavian Revolution of 1795. For the United Provinces that age had begun after a series of crises in 1747 and resulted in the...
Routledge, 2006. — 344 p. Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam, presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century. Traditionally this shift has been accepted as the natural consequence of a dynamic and progressive city, such as Amsterdam, taking advantage of...
Longman Group, 1989. — 156 p. The Dutch Revolt, 1559-1648 begins by illustrating the historical background and causes of the revolt. This is followed by chronological sections devoted to each phase of the Dutch revolt and an assesment section that takes a more thematic approach, looking at the military, economic, political and constitutional issues.
Routledge, 2016. — 310 p. The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe. Focusing on the fate of French Protestants who fled to the Dutch Republic, Experiencing Exile examines how Huguenot refugees dealt with the complex realities of living as strangers...
Routledge, 2011. — 240 p. The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on one of the earliest urbanized regions in the world, the...
Routledge, 2014. — 370 p. Whether out of historical interest, romantic identification with the colonized or as models for contemporary counter-insurgency experts, the mass violence of insurgency and counter-insurgency in the post-war decolonization of the European empires has long exerted an intense fascination. In the main, the dramas in French Algeria and British Kenya in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 318 p. This book explores the political ideas of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, which led to the break-up of the Restoration state of the ‘united’ Kingdom of the Netherlands. It uncovers the origins of liberalism and political Catholicism in the Southern Netherlands in the wake of the French Revolution, and traces the development of political...
Brill, 2011. — 367 p. — (Atlantic World 23). Recent studies on Dutch encounters with indigenous peoples in the Americas and West Africa have taken a narrow regional approach rather than a comparative Atlantic perspective. This book, based on Dutch archival records and primary and secondary sources in multiple languages, integrates indigenous peoples more fully in the Dutch...
Ashgate, 2007. — 316 p. William III's (1650-1702) reign as Stadholder in the United Provinces and King of England, Scotland and Ireland has always intrigued historians. This volume contains a number of innovative essays from specialists in the field, moving historical discussion away from the traditional analysis of single events to encompass William's entire reign from a variety...
Brill, 2016. — 254 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 199). The Dutch Revolt (1572-1648) led to the displacement of tens of thousands of people. In Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt, Johannes Muller shows how migrants and their descendants in the Dutch Republic, England and Germany cultivated their Netherlandish heritage for more than 200 years. Memories of...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 310 p. In the spring of 1575, Holland's Northern Quarter--the waterlogged peninsula stretching from Amsterdam to the North Sea--was threatened with imminent invasion by the Spanish army. Since the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt a few years earlier, the Spanish had repeatedly failed to expel the rebels under William of Orange from this remote...
Brill, 2012. — 297 p. — (TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction 15). Chris Nierstrasz' In the Shadow of the Company, offers us an insight into the relation between the Dutch East India Company and its servants as it slipped into decline. This relationship altered dramatically in the eighteenth century under internal and external pressures. Is there any...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 300 p. Heaven's Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. D. L. Noorlander argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences across the seventeenth century. Dutch merchants, officers, sailors, and soldiers found in...
In ‘s Graven-Haghe, by de Weduwe, eñ Ersghenamen van wijlen Hillebrandt Jacobsse van Wouw, Ordinaris Druckers vande Hog:Mog:Heeren Staten Generael, 1623. – 32 p. Третьего июня 1621 года Генеральные Штаты, главный орган управления Объединенных провинций Нидерландов, выдал хартию группе голландских купцов об учреждении Голландской Вест-Индской компании. Как и Голландская Ост-Индская...
Brepols, 2023. — 210 p. This volume is the first book-length study to thematise the representation of power in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Bringing together scholars from different backgrounds, the volume aims to stimulate a cross-disciplinary dialogue about representations in art, literature, ritual, and other media. Within the Dutch Republic, different state...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 148 p. This book aims to reinterpret current perceptions of the Dutch Forty Years War (1672-1713), usually regarded as a struggle against the expansionism of Louis XIV, birthing the European balance of power. Particular attention is given to recent international relations theory, through the examination of popular and official documents, as well as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 148 p. This book aims to reinterpret current perceptions of the Dutch Forty Years War (1672-1713), usually regarded as a struggle against the expansionism of Louis XIV, birthing the European balance of power. Particular attention is given to recent international relations theory, through the examination of popular and official documents, as well as...
Leiden University Press, 2021. — 248 p. Unlike most city histories, this book focuses exclusively on the city’s connections with colonialism and slavery. Rotterdam, the second-largest Dutch city, is one of Europe’s leading ports. Its maritime expansion was intrinsically linked to Dutch colonialism, including slave trading and colonial slavery in the Americas, Africa and Asia....
KITLV Press, 2009. — 374 p. Migration flows in the former Dutch colonial orbit created an intricate web connecting the Netherlands to Africa, Asia and the Americas; Africa to the Americas and to Asia; in the nineteenth century Asia to the Americas, with, in the post-Second World War period, the direction of migration shifting to the Netherlands. Some of these migrations were...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. — 272 p. The Dutch slave trade, slavery and abolitionism have long remained unduly neglected issues in the burgeoning international debate on capitalism, modernity, and antislavery. Fifty Years Later now offers a thorough and wide-ranging discussion of antislavery in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonial world, and also provides a fresh...
Brill, 2014. — 453 p. — (Atlantic World 29). Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluate the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the Atlantic system by highlighting both economic and cultural contributions to the Atlantic world.
3rd Revised edition. — Amsterdam University Press, 2009. — 128 p. Many think they know the legends behind tulipmania and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history should be passed on to future generations? This overview of historical highlights, assembled by a number of specialists in consultation with the Dutch general public, provides...
Revised Edition. — Penguin Books, 2002. — 334 p. Foreword to the revised edition. Prelude. The First Revolt (1565-1568). The Second Revolt (1569-1576). The Third Revolt (1576-1581). Independence and Survival (1581-1589). Consolidation and Settlement. Postscript: the Netherlands divided. Genealogical Tables. Additional bibliography: studies since 1975. Index of authors cited in...
Amsterdam University Press, 2010 - 220 p.
The end of the 16th century saw Dutch expansion in Asia, as The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) was fast becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world had ever seen. This landmark study looks at perhaps the most important tool in the Company' trading - its ships. In...
Amsterdam: De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1993. — 190 pgs. In dit boek volgen wij op de voet de avontuurlijke tocht van de oorlogsvrijwilligers van de Koninklijke marine in de jaren 1944-1950. De Koninklijke Marine speelde slechts een bescheiden rol in het conflict tusen Nederland en de Indonesische Republiek in de periode 16 augustus 1945 tot 1 januari 1951. Toch diende in 1947 bijna de...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 279 p. Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The six women at the heart of this study: Cornelia Teellinck, Susanna Teellinck, Anna Maria van Schurman, Sara Nevius, Cornelia Leydekker, and Henrica...
Brill, 2013. — 272 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 172). This book reveals the fundamental role rape played in promoting Dutch solidarity from 1609-1725. Through the identification of particular enemies, it directed attention away from competing regional, religious, and political loyalties. Patriotic Protestant authors highlighted atrocities committed by...
Cambridge University Press, transferred to digital printing in 2004. — 428 p. The Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade is a subject of enormous complexity. Not only does it cover about two centuries of history, but it has wide-ranging geographical dimensions, including Europe, Africa, North America, South America, and the Caribbean. In addition, the subject involves...
Koninklijke Brill, 2003. — 525 p. — (The Atlantic World 1). The role of the trade and shipping in the Dutch economy during the 17th and 18th centuries has not been given due recognition of its importance, argue Postma (history, Minnesota State U. at Mankato, US) and Enthoven (maritime history, Royal Netherlands Naval College, Netherlands). They present 14 papers that describe...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 340 p. — (European History in Perspective). Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest nations on earth. As one...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 340 p. — (European History in Perspective). Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest nations on earth. As one...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 332 p. Maarten Prak charts the political, social, economic and cultural history of the Golden Age through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip to the experience of immigrants and Jews in Dutch society, the paintings of Vermeer and Rembrandt, and the ideas of Spinoza. He sets the Dutch experience within a European context and...
Macmillan Education, 1998. — 181 p. — (European History in Perspective). The Impact of a New State in Europe. The Economic Miracle — and its Limitations. Republicanism in Practice. Religion, Politics and Toleration. A Bourgeois Society? A Divided Culture.
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 264 p. Photographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reign of Queens Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–1980), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia. It is the first monograph in English on the Dutch monarchy and the Netherlands’ modern empire in the age of mass and amateur...
Routledge, 2016. — 326 p. — (Perspectives in Economic and Social History 38). Sixteenth-century Europe was powered by commerce. Whilst mercantile groups from many areas prospered, those from the Low Countries were particularly successful. This study, based on extensive archival research, charts the ascent of the merchants established around Antwerp.
Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 272 p. In Europe’s Babylon, Michael Pye sets out to rediscover the city that was lost and bring its wilder days to life using every kind of clue: novels, paintings, songs, schoolbooks, letters and the archives of Venice, London and the Medici. He builds a picture of a city haunted by fire, plague, and violence, but one that was learning how to be a...
Université de Liège, 2011. — 173 p. Notre projet profite pleinement des acquis accumulés par les historiens dans le domaine de la diplomatie moderne. Aux XVe et XVIe siècles, l‟effacement progressif des idéaux impériaux de l‟ère médiévale et l‟apparition d‟États de plus en plus centralisés autour de la figure du Prince, jaloux de son autorité, ont offert à l‟Europe un terrain...
Leiden University Press, 2015. — 672 p. Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese...
Routledge, 2020. — 232 p. This book describes the crucial period in the monumental eighty-year Dutch struggle against the Spanish Empire, through which a small nation gained its independence from one of the mightiest European powers. Dr. Ridley shows how even though the Dutch Revolt was at its lowest point, Maurits of Nassau and the Dutch fought on and the Revolt survived. It...
Routledge, 2020. — 202 p. Frederik Hendrik and the Triumph of the Dutch Revolt describes a crucial period in European history. During the early seventeenth century the Dutch, led by Frederik Hendrik, were engaged in a struggle for independence from the mighty Spanish Empire. But Spain was allied with its fellow Hapsburg power, the Holy Roman Empire, and Europe was convulsed...
Routledge, 2020. — 202 p. Frederik Hendrik and the Triumph of the Dutch Revolt describes a crucial period in European history. During the early seventeenth century the Dutch, led by Frederik Hendrik, were engaged in a struggle for independence from the mighty Spanish Empire. But Spain was allied with its fellow Hapsburg power, the Holy Roman Empire, and Europe was convulsed...
Routledge, 2020. — 232 p. This book describes the crucial period in the monumental eighty-year Dutch struggle against the Spanish Empire, through which a small nation gained its independence from one of the mightiest European powers. Dr. Ridley shows how even though the Dutch Revolt was at its lowest point, Maurits of Nassau and the Dutch fought on and the Revolt survived. It...
Routledge, 2021. — 200 p. William the Silent and the Dutch Revolt examines the first stages of the Dutch struggle against Spanish rule during the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The book analyses the causes of growing discontent in the Netherlands and the various stages of the revolt, focusing on the key tipping points where discontent and violent upheaval escalated to...
Bekking & Blitz, 2018. — 184 p. Every year, more than 17 million tourists from all over the world visit Amsterdam: to board the boats traversing the town's fabled canals; to gaze at the stately, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century mansions lining them; to buy and experience the thrill of the cheap and almost-legal weed in the so-called 'coffee-shops'; to stroll along the few,...
Brill, 2018. — 434 p. In 'Mytho-poetics at Work' Rengenier Rittersma offers an account of the posthumous fame of the Count of Egmont (1522-1568), whose public decapitation triggered the Dutch revolt. Drawing from numerous European sources – pamphlets, chronicles, and literature – this monograph tries to unravel why and how the alleged freedom fighter became an icon in European...
University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 337 p. Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within an Atlantic economy and the...
Translator: Paul Arblaster. — Brill, 2010. — 323 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 152). Prevailing scholarly analysis of the public disputations between D.V. Coornhert (1522-1590) and Dutch Reformed ministers is firmly rooted in a principled view of early modern tolerance. This study proposes a new point of departure, which involves breaking away from a...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 244 p. If the combination of superb political skills and a powerful intelligence were enough to make a 'philosopher-king' such as Plato dreamed of, the Dutch 'Grand Pensionary' John de Witt (1625-1672) would fit the prescription as well as any statesman in history. Manoeuvring among the powers of Europe in the period of France's growing...
Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 266p. List of illustrations Prologue: lieutenants of the crown William I: from courtier to rebel Maurice of Nassau: defender of the Republic Frederick Henry: firm in moderation William II: the challenger The first stadholderless period: 1 exclusion The first stadholderless period: 2 return William III: stadholder and king The second...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. — 298 p. — (TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction 8). This study focuses on the perceptions of the merchants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) of the Thai royal court during their extended residence in Ayutthaya. Basing herself on a wealth of Dutch primary sources, the author shows how trade, politics and diplomacy...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 192 p. The Dutch resistance movement during the Nazi occupation was bedevilled by treachery, betrayal and poor organization and support from London. Despite these serious problems, the brave men and women of the Dutch resistance who refused to accept domination by their brutal oppressors, made a significant contribution to the war effort albeit...
Berghahn Books, 2021. — 278 p. In the nineteenth century, the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java were the sites of dramatically increased industrialization. Led by a group of "merchant kings" who exemplified gentlemanly capitalism, this ambitious trading project transformed the small, economically moribund Netherlands into a global power. Merchant Kings offers a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 287 p. This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the “Portuguese Nation,” conducting trade from the Iberian...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 584 p. — (History of Warfare 23). A specialist in the history of the Netherlands, maritime history, and the history of the European Expansion, Sicking (history, U. of Leiden) points out that in a country like the Netherlands, whose very territory was to some extent reclaimed from the sea, maritime history cannot be considered a specialty...
Rand McNally, 1970. — 248 p. William the Silent (1533 – 1584), also known as William of Orange, was the main leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. Born into the House of Nassau, he became Prince of Orange in 1544 and is thereby the founder...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012. — 349 p. Inhoudsopgave. Proloog Adellijke beweegredenen en de Opstand anders bekeken de verzoening van rennenberg (1579-1581). Stereotypen. Staatsvorming. Patronage. Inleiding. Adellijke verzoeningspogingen. Habsburgse verzoeningspogingen. Vrede of verzoening? Bronnen. Indeling. Hoofdstuk I ‘Le devoir de révolte et de réconciliation’ egmont als...
Facts on File, 2007. — 296 p.
Considered one of the world's great maritime powers in the 17th century, the Netherlands continues to be an important commercial entrepot and international crossroads today, a status that has made the modern nation one of the wealthiest in the world. Despite this country's small size, the Netherlands has played a relatively large part in the...
Brill, 2013. — 331 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 174). Margaret of Parma: A Life presents a woman who had a vital part in the political dramas of Reformation Europe. A natural child of Charles V, she was educated in the courts of Brussels, Florence, Rome, and Parma, and then was thrust into religious and political tumult in the Netherlands, where she...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012. — 238 p. The rebels of the Dutch Revolt, their political thoughts and the media they used to express them, have long been a focus of historical attention. This book, however, focuses on the largely untold story of what the other side, the Habsburg regime and its local supporters, thought about the conflict and how they responded to rebel...
Brill, 2011. — 362 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 155). This book explores the dynamics of peaceful coexistence in the Dutch Republic by tracing the literary responses to one of the key controversies between Protestants and Catholics – the role of religious imagery in worship. Why and to what extent were people in the Republic willing to reconcile...
Reidel, 1981. — 162 p. What we usually call the Golden Age or Golden Century of the Netherlands starts around 1580-1590 with the earlier years of the Republic and comes to an end with the last years of the seventeenth century. It is also a period of important contributions to science, and in this respect may be characterized by the names of Stevin and Huygens, the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2006 - 288 p.
Gifts, from objects to hospitality and from poems to support, are a means of establishing and maintaining social ties. This study focuses on the nature of seventeenth- century Dutch social relations through the exchange of gifts by a wide range of individuals, from schoolmaster and artisan to poet and regent. Their gift-exchange...
Zwolle: Uitgeverij Waanders, 1980. - 203 p. Inhoud. Erecomité. Tentoonstellingscomité. Personen en instellingen die hebben bijgedragen aan het tot stand komen van de tentoonstelling. Ten geleide. Voorwoord. Het laat-middeleeuwse burgerhuis in het Noorden en Oosten van Nederland. Het huisraad in het Oostnederlandse burgerwoonhuis in de late middeleeuwen. Catalogus. Literatuur....
Brill, 1992. — 427 p. — (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica 51). Biography of Cornelius Aurelius (c. 1460-1531), the praeceptor Erasmi, and analysis of his chief historical work, the so-called Divisiekroniek.
University of California Press, 1990. — 342 p. Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government possible in medieval and early modern Europe? While many historians have sought an answer by focusing on the development of parliamentary institutions in emerging national monarchies, or investigating the wider autonomy enjoyed by various city-states within their own borders,...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 356 p. This book tells the story of a province that gave birth to a country. The then county of Holland was (with Zeeland and Utrecht) one of three original signatories to the 1579 Union of Utrecht, the constitutional cornerstone of the Dutch Republic. By the time the Republic gained international recognition in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 356 p. This book tells the story of a province that gave birth to a country. The then county of Holland was (with Zeeland and Utrecht) one of three original signatories to the 1579 Union of Utrecht, the constitutional cornerstone of the Dutch Republic. By the time the Republic gained international recognition in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)...
Reaktion Books, 2019. — 272 p. In 1568, the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands rebelled against the absolutist rule of the king of Spain. A confederation of duchies, counties, and lordships, the Provinces demanded the right of self-determination, the freedom of conscience and religion, and the right to be represented in government. Their long struggle for liberty and the...
Reaktion Books, 2019. — 272 p. In 1568, the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands rebelled against the absolutist rule of the king of Spain. A confederation of duchies, counties, and lordships, the Provinces demanded the right of self-determination, the freedom of conscience and religion, and the right to be represented in government. Their long struggle for liberty and the...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 348 p. — (Ideas in Context, No 23) — ISBN-10: 0521891639; ISBN-13: 978-0521891639. This book is a comprehensive study of the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt (1555–90). It explores the development of the political ideas which motivated and legitimized the Dutch resistance against the government of Philip II...
Amsterdam University Press. 2007. 229 pages. ISBN: 978-90-5356-498-1 Many people know the stories behind the tulip mania in the 17th century and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history and culture should be passed on to future generations? A Key to Dutch History and its resulting overview of historical highlights, assembled by a...
Brill, 2002. — 424 p. — (The Northern World. North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. Peoples, Economies and Cultures 3). In the early-modern period, the Dutch called the grain trade on the Baltic the 'mother of all trades', as they considered it to be the basis of most of their trade and shipping and indeed the cornerstone of the Dutch economy. For a very long time the...
Brill, 2015. — 752 p. — (European Expansion and Indigenous Response 17). In Encounters of the Opposite Coast Markus Vink provides a narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC), one of the great northern European chartered companies, and Madurai, one of the 'great southern Nayakas' and successor-states of the...
Imprime en l Am: L'auteur et annee de publication non precisee. - 244 p. Ce n est d aujourd hui que les actions louables de ges vertueus ont este non seulement mesprisees par le monde ingrat, mais aussi desguisees, et par calonies et faus rappors rendues odieuses.
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 358 p. Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires were comprised of durable networks...
Yale University Press, 1944. — 255 p. This famous book by a celebrated historian recounts the life of the unlikely revolutionary hero and favourite of Emperor Charles V, William Prince of Orange, who mobilised the legendary group of rebels known as the Beggars to fight the imperial forces of Spain. William's life and exploits reveal him as an inspiring symbol of moral and...
Brill, 2020. — 340 p. In this study, based on an exhaustive examination of the first 6,000 advertisements placed in Dutch newspapers between 1620 and 1675, Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree chart the growth of advertising from an adjunct to the book industry, advertising newly published titles, to a broad reflection of a burgeoning consumer society.
Brill, 2012. — xiv, 395 p. — ISBN 978-90-04-22140-6. The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers Johan (1622-1660) and Pieter de la Court (1618-1685), two successful textile entrepreneurs and radical...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 359 p. This is the most comprehensive history of the Netherlands available in the English language. It surveys Dutch history from the 16th century, when the nation took shape as a geographical, administrative and political entity, right through to the Netherlands of today. Examining domestic politics and wider international contexts, as well as...
Brill, 2013. — 220 p. — (History of Warfare 86). Traditionally isolated from mainstream European affairs, in 1914 the Dutch had no major allegiances that bound them to any one side of the conflict. Geographically and economically caught between two of the major belligerents, Great Britain and Germany, the Netherlands was constantly vulnerable to attack from either side. In...
Brill, 2016. — 298 p. — (Global Economic History). In Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence the intercontinental trade of the Dutch East India Company and its effects on living standards in a number of its colonies are analysed to shed light on several major debates in economic history.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 194 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5325-8. Из борьбы с испанским владычеством Голландия вышла одной из величайших в мире морских империй. За несколько лет страна обрела контроль над огромными территориями: от Индонезии до Западной Индии, от Южной Африки до Южной Америки. Чарльз Боксер, профессор Йельского университета, автор целого ряда...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 368 с. — (Всемирная история) — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5325-8 Из борьбы с испанским владычеством Голландия вышла одной из величайших в мире морских империй. За несколько лет страна обрела контроль над огромными территориями: от Индонезии до Западной Индии, от Южной Африки до Южной Америки. Чарльз Боксер, профессор Йельского университета, автор целого ряда...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 368 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5325-8. Из борьбы с испанским владычеством Голландия вышла одной из величайших в мире морских империй. За несколько лет страна обрела контроль над огромными территориями: от Индонезии до Западной Индии, от Южной Африки до Южной Америки. Чарлз Боксер, профессор Йельского университета, автор целого ряда...
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 352 c. — ISBN: 978‑5‑9524‑5325‑8. Из борьбы с испанским владычеством Голландия вышла одной из величайших в мире морских империй. За несколько лет страна обрела контроль над огромными территориями: от Индонезии до Западной Индии, от Южной Африки до Южной Америки. Чарлз Боксер, профессор Йельского университета, автор целого ряда исторических трудов,...
СПб.: Европейский дом; Институт Петра Великого, 2014. — 255 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8015-0342-4. Некоторые авторы в Нидерландах и за их пределами, конечно, интересовались голландской политикой на Балтике в описываемый период, однако их работы или слишком фрагментарны, или же — из-за недостаточного привлечения русских и шведских источников — слишком односторонни. Предлагаемая...
М.: Весь мир, 2013. — 224 с. — (Национальная история). — ISBN: 9785777705242. Книги нидерландского писателя и журналиста Геерта Мака (р. 1946) по истории Нидерландов, Амстердама и Европы пользуются огромной популярностью на его родине и за ее пределами. Он лауреат многочисленных литературных премий и дважды признавался «Историком года» в Нидерландах. Главное достоинство его...
М.: Альпина Паблишер, 2019. — 638 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6042320-2-6. Инновации и прогресс - важный раздел экономической истории и истории технологий. В этой книге Карел Дэвидс провел глубокий анализ вопроса технологического лидерства на примере истории Голландской республики, которая считается первой современной экономикой. Изучив огромное количество европейских архивных материалов,...
М.: Альпина Паблишер, 2019. — 638 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6042320-2-6. Инновации и прогресс - важный раздел экономической истории и истории технологий. В этой книге Карел Дэвидс провел глубокий анализ вопроса технологического лидерства на примере истории Голландской республики, которая считается первой современной экономикой. Изучив огромное количество европейских архивных материалов,...
М.: Клио, 2018. — 608 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906518-20-0. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя работа известного британского историка Джонатана И. Израеля «История Голландии» посвящена 300-летнему периоду в истории Северных Нидерландов от Бургундского периода до эпохи Наполеона I (1477—1806 гг.). Хронологические рамки первого тома данного исследования ограничиваются серединой XVII века,...
М.: Клио, 2018. — 608 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906518-20-0. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя работа известного британского историка Джонатана И. Израеля «История Голландии» посвящена 300-летнему периоду в истории Северных Нидерландов от Бургундского периода до эпохи Наполеона I (1477—1806 гг.). Хронологические рамки первого тома данного исследования ограничиваются серединой XVII века,...
М.: Клио, 2018. — 618 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906518-71-2. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя работа известного британского историка Джонатана И. Израеля «История Голландии» посвящена 300-летнему периоду в истории Северных Нидерландов от Бургундского периода до эпохи Наполеона I (1477—1806 гг.). Хронологические рамки первого тома данного исследования ограничиваются серединой XVII века,...
М.: Клио, 2018. — 618 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906518-71-2. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя работа известного британского историка Джонатана И. Израеля «История Голландии» посвящена 300-летнему периоду в истории Северных Нидерландов от Бургундского периода до эпохи Наполеона I (1477—1806 гг.). Хронологические рамки первого тома данного исследования ограничиваются серединой XVII века,...
Москва: Клио, 2018. — 608 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906518-20-0. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя работа известного британского историка Джонатана И. Израеля «История Голландии» посвящена 300-летнему периоду в истории Северных Нидерландов от Бургундского периода до эпохи Наполеона I (1477—1806 гг.). Хронологические рамки первого тома данного исследования ограничиваются серединой XVII...
Москва: Клио, 2018. — 618 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя работа известного британского историка Джонатана И. Израеля «История Голландии» посвящена 300-летнему периоду в истории Северных Нидерландов от Бургундского периода до эпохи Наполеона I (1477—1806 гг.). Хронологические рамки первого тома данного исследования ограничиваются серединой XVII века, ознаменованного концом...
Переводчик: Богатыренко Елена Даниловна. М.: Б.с.г.-пресс, 2007. — 405 с. — ISBN: 5-93381-235-8 Андре Моруа (1885–1967) — классик французской литературы XX века, автор многих блистательных биографических произведений, романов и рассказов. Он много путешествовал и с удовольствием делился с читателями своими путевыми впечатлениями. Рассказ о Голландии полон самых неожиданных...
СПб: Издание книжного магазина Яковлева, 1865. — 670 с. «The Rise of the Dutch Republic» (т.1-3, 1856) - самое известное произведение американского историка и дипломата Джона Лотропа Мотли, или Мотлея (Motley, 1814-1877); в этом трёхтомнике Мотли рассказывал о событиях Нидерландской революции XVI века, приведших к отпадению Нидерландов от власти Габсбургской династии и...
СПб: Издание Яковлева, 1866. — 721 с. «The Rise of the Dutch Republic» (т.1-3, 1856) - самое известное произведение американского историка и дипломата Джона Лотропа Мотли, или Мотлея (Motley, 1814-1877); в этом трёхтомнике Мотли рассказывал о событиях Нидерландской революции XVI века, приведших к отпадению Нидерландов от власти Габсбургской династии и образованию Республики...
СПб: (Издание Яковлева), 1871. — 549 с. «The Rise of the Dutch Republic» (т.1-3, 1856) - самое известное произведение американского историка и дипломата Джона Лотропа Мотли, или Мотлея (Motley, 1814-1877); в этом трёхтомнике Мотли рассказывал о событиях Нидерландской революции XVI века, приведших к отпадению Нидерландов от власти Габсбургской династии и образованию Республики...
Пер. Ф. А. Коган-Бернштейн; ред. и ввод. статья Е. А. Косминского. – М.: Соцэкгиз, 1937. — 574 с.
Работа Пиренна по истории нидерландской революции входит в тт. III и IV его многотомной истории Бельгии. В работе содержится большой фактической материал по политической истории, истории религиозной борьбы и по культурной истории Бельгии в XVI–XVII вв. Ясное и простое изложение...
Пер. Ф. А. Коган-Бернштейн; ред. и ввод. статья Е. А. Косминского. – М.: Соцэкгиз, 1937. – 574 с.
Работа Пиренна по истории нидерландской революции входит в тт. III и IV его многотомной истории Бельгии. В работе содержится большой фактической материал по политической истории, истории религиозной борьбы и по культурной истории Бельгии в XVI–XVII вв. Ясное и простое изложение...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1937. — 574 с. Работа Пиренна по истории нидерландской революции входит в тт. III и IV его многотомной истории Бельгии. В работе содержится большой фактической материал по политической истории, истории религиозной борьбы и по культурной истории Бельгии в XVI–XVII вв. Ясное и простое изложение делает книгу доступной для широкого круга читателей, в помощь которому...
Пер. Ф.А. Коган-Бернштейн; ред. и ввод. статья Е.А. Косминского. — Москва: Соцэкгиз, 1937. — 574 с. Работа Пиренна по Истории нидерландской революции входив в тт. III и IV его многотомной истории Бельгии. В работе содержится большой фактический материал по политической истории, истории религиозной борьбы и по культурной истории Бельгии в XVI–XVII вв. Ясное и простое изложение...
Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2018. — 1048 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4448-0731-6. «Истории страны Рембрандта» — это история Голландии XVII века, история становления Республики Соединенных провинций, рассказанная через портреты Рембрандта, через жизнь людей, запечатленных великим голландским художником. Автор увлекательно рассказывает о политической и религиозной борьбе, о спорах...
Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2018. — 1048 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4448-0731-6. «Истории страны Рембрандта» — это история становления Республики Соединенных провинций, рассказанная через жизнь людей, запечатленных великим голландским художником. Автор увлекательно рассказывает о политической и религиозной борьбе, о спорах по вопросу о предопределении, о торговле с врагом, о...
Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2018. — 1048 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4448-0731-6. Комментарии к каждой главе не разобраны и не отредактированы, остальной текст вычитан «Истории страны Рембрандта» — это история Голландии XVII века, история становления Республики Соединенных провинций, рассказанная через портреты Рембрандта, через жизнь людей, запечатленных великим голландским...
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1957. — 220 с. Гентское восстание представляет собою один из наиболее ярких эпизодов социально-политической, классовой борьбы в Нидерландах кануна буржуазной нидерландской революции XVI в. Его историческое значение тем более велико, что революция и война за независимость во Фландрии в известной степени начались с того, на чем закончилось...
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1957. — 220 с. Гентское восстание представляет собою один из наиболее ярких эпизодов социально-политической, классовой борьбы в Нидерландах кануна буржуазной нидерландской революции XVI в. Его историческое значение тем более велико, что революция и война за независимость во Фландрии в известной степени начались с того, на чем закончилось...
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1958. — 191 с. Ответственный редактор профессор Сказкин С. Д.
Содержание
Введение
Предпосылки буржуазной революции в Нидерландах
Начало буржуазной революции и войны за независимость
Восстание 1572 года и зарождение буржуазной республики на севере Нидерландов
От восстания 4 сентября 1576 года до падения Антверпена
Испанские Нидерланды...
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1958. — 191 с. Ответственный редактор профессор Сказкин С. Д.
Содержание
Введение
Предпосылки буржуазной революции в Нидерландах
Начало буржуазной революции и войны за независимость
Восстание 1572 года и зарождение буржуазной республики на севере Нидерландов
От восстания 4 сентября 1576 года до падения Антверпена
Испанские Нидерланды...
М.: Наука, 1964. — 404 с. Задачи предпринимаемого исследования: на основе марксистского анализа социально-экономического развития северных провинций Нидерландов в конце XV ‒ первой половине XVI в. и связанных с этим изменений в структуре общества выяснить природу идеологической оболочки реформационного движения, в частности революционного анабаптизма, их социально-политическую...
М.: Наука, 1964. — 404 с. Задачи предпринимаемого исследования: на основе марксистского анализа социально-экономического развития северных провинций Нидерландов в конце XV ‒ первой половине XVI в. и связанных с этим изменений в структуре общества выяснить природу идеологической оболочки реформационного движения, в частности революционного анабаптизма, их социально-политическую...
Учеб. пособие для вузов. — М.: Дрофа, 2007. — 515 с. — ISBN: 978-5-358-01308-3. Впервые в отечественной учебной литературе предпринята попытка дать систематизированное изложение истории Нидерландов с древности до настоящего времени: становление провинций, революция и освободительная война, возникновение республики Соединённых провинций, образование Королевства Нидерландов,...
Учеб. пособие для вузов. — М.: Дрофа, 2007. — 510 с. Впервые в отечественной учебной литературе предпринята попытка дать систематизированное изложение истории Нидерландов с древности до настоящего времени: становление провинций, революция и освободительная война, возникновение республики Соединенных провинций, образование Королевства Нидерландов, становление парламентской системы,...
Учеб. пособие для вузов. – М.: Дрофа, 2007. – 515 с. — ISBN: 978-5-358-01308-3. Впервые в отечественной учебной литературе предпринята попытка дать систематизированное изложение истории Нидерландов с древности до настоящего времени: становление провинций, революция и освободительная война, возникновение республики Соединённых провинций, образование Королевства Нидерландов,...
Силистра: Книгопечатница на П. Л. Арнаудовъ, 1887. — 415 с. Книгата е посветена на освободителната борба на нидерландците срещу испанското владичество.
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