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.
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...
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...
Scarecrow Press, 2004. — 473 p. Brussels has become the "capital" of United Europe and its status as a political, economic, and diplomatic nerve center is set to assume ever greater importance as the European Union grows in depth and breadth and as the city continues to serve as the headquarters site for key regional and international agencies, including the North Atlantic...
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...
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...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 584 p. 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 separate from general history....
Leuven (Belgium): Leuven University Press, 2018. — 310 p., illus. In 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces nestled between the French and Dutch borders declared themselves a new free and independent country: the United States of Belgium. Before then, the provinces had been part of the vast Austrian...
Brill, 2013. — 336 p. Defending Neutrality analyses the broad spectrum of war preparation of a small neutral state, The Netherlands, before, during and after the First World War. It deals with the role of neutral states close to the front and with the internal technological, military and societal developments within that state to ensure its survival.
Brill, 2013. — 220 p. The internment of approximately 50,000 foreign troops in the Netherlands, provided an important showcase for the Dutch Government to demonstrate its neutral stance and its impartiality towards the all of the belligerents.
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...
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....
Academisch Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. — Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. — 322 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...
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...
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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, 1988. — 266 p. 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 stadholderless period:...