The Dutch Revolt 1559 - 1648

The Dutch Revolt 1559 - 1648
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9781317880578
ISBN-13 : 1317880579
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dutch Revolt 1559 - 1648 by : P. Limm

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 revolt and an assesment section that takes a more thematic approach, looking at the military, economic, political and constitutional issues.

The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt

The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781134524839
ISBN-13 : 1134524838
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt by : Mr Graham Darby

The Dutch revolt against Spanish rule in the sixteenth century was a formative event in European history. The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt brings together in one volume the latest scholarship from leading experts in the field, to illuminate why the Dutch revolted, the way events unfolded and how they gained independence. In exploring the desire of the Dutch to control their own affairs, it also questions whether Dutch identity came about by accident. The book makes the most recent research available in English for the first time, focusing on: * the role of the aristocracy * religion * the towns and provinces * the Spanish perspective * finance and ideology.

A Concise History of the Netherlands

A Concise History of the Netherlands
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 505
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ISBN-10 : 9780521875882
ISBN-13 : 0521875889
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis A Concise History of the Netherlands by : James C. Kennedy

This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.

The Dutch Wars of Independence

The Dutch Wars of Independence
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781317812548
ISBN-13 : 1317812549
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dutch Wars of Independence by : Marjolein 't Hart

In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in establishing their independence through their eighty years struggle with Spain - one of the most remarkable achievements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other rebellions troubled mighty powers of this epoch, but none resulted in the establishment of an independent, republican state. This book: tells the story of the Eighty Years War and its aftermath, including the three Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Guerre de Hollande (1570-1680). explores the interrelation between war, economy and society, explaining how the Dutch could turn their wars into commercial successes. illustrates how war could trigger and sustain innovations in the field of economy and state formation ; the new ways of organization of Dutch military institutions favoured a high degree of commercialized warfare. shows how other state rulers tried to copy the Dutch way of commercialized warfare, in particular in taking up the protection for capital accumulation. As such, the book unravels one of the unknown pillars of European state formation (and of capitalism). The volume investigates thoroughly the economic profitability of warfare in the early modern period and shows how smaller, commercialized states could sustain prolonged war violence common to that period. It moves beyond traditional explanations of Dutch success in warfare focusing on geography, religion, diplomacy while presenting an up-to-date overview and interpretation of the Dutch Revolt, the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Guerre de Hollande.

The Dutch Revolt

The Dutch Revolt
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 0141391324
ISBN-13 : 9780141391328
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dutch Revolt by : Geoffrey Parker

Based on Spanish and Dutch documents from archive and private collections from all over Europe, The Dutch Revolt takes into account religions and economic, as well as political, factors, demonstrating the intricate links that tied the fate of the Netherlands to that of Spain, in a age when particularism was more potent that patriotism.

The Frigid Golden Age

The Frigid Golden Age
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 9781108317580
ISBN-13 : 1108317588
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Frigid Golden Age by : Dagomar Degroot

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 Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighboring societies unraveled in the face of extremes in temperature and precipitation. By tracing the occasionally counterintuitive manifestations of climate change from global to local scales, Degroot finds that the Little Ice Age presented not only challenges for Dutch citizens but also opportunities that they aggressively exploited in conducting commerce, waging war, and creating culture. The overall success of their Republic in coping with climate change offers lessons that we would be wise to heed today, as we confront the growing crisis of global warming.

The Colony of New Netherland

The Colony of New Netherland
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 0801475163
ISBN-13 : 9780801475160
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Colony of New Netherland by : Jaap Jacobs

The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley region. In The Colony of New Netherland, Jaap Jacobs offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch colony on the Hudson from the first trading voyages in the 1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English. As Jacobs shows, New Netherland offers a distinctive example of economic colonization and in its social and religious profile represents a noteworthy divergence from the English colonization in North America. Centered around New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan, the colony extended north to present-day Schenectady, New York, east to central Connecticut, and south to the border shared by Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, leaving an indelible imprint on the culture, political geography, and language of the early modern mid-Atlantic region. Dutch colonists' vivid accounts of the land and people of the area shaped European perceptions of this bountiful land; their own activities had a lasting effect on land use and the flora and fauna of New York State, in particular, as well as on relations with the Native people with whom they traded. Sure to become readers' first reference to this crucial phase of American early colonial history, The Colony of New Netherland is a multifaceted and detailed depiction of life in the colony, from exploration and settlement through governance, trade, and agriculture. Jacobs gives a keen sense of the built environment and social relations of the Dutch colonists and closely examines the influence of the church and the social system adapted from that of the Dutch Republic. Although Jacobs focuses his narrative on the realities of quotidian existence in the colony, he considers that way of life in the broader context of the Dutch Atlantic and in comparison to other European settlements in North America.

From Revolt to Riches

From Revolt to Riches
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Publisher : UCL Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781910634875
ISBN-13 : 1910634875
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis From Revolt to Riches by : Theo Hermans

This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth 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 intellectual – of the Dutch Republic in its Golden Age. While many aspects of this rich and nuanced era have been studied before, the emphasis of this volume is on a series of interactions and interrelations: between communities and their varying but often cognate languages; between different but overlapping spheres of human activity; between culture and history. The chapters are written by historians, linguists, bibliographers, art historians and literary scholars based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States. In continually crossing disciplinary, linguistic and national boundaries, while keeping the culture and history of the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Golden Age in focus, this book opens up new and often surprising perspectives on a region all the more intriguing for the very complexity of its entanglements.

The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt

The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 208
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781134524822
ISBN-13 : 113452482X
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt by : Mr Graham Darby

The Dutch revolt against Spanish rule in the sixteenth century was a formative event in European history. The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt brings together in one volume the latest scholarship from leading experts in the field, to illuminate why the Dutch revolted, the way events unfolded and how they gained independence. In exploring the desire of the Dutch to control their own affairs, it also questions whether Dutch identity came about by accident. The book makes the most recent research available in English for the first time, focusing on: * the role of the aristocracy * religion * the towns and provinces * the Spanish perspective * finance and ideology.

The Twelve Years Truce (1609)

The Twelve Years Truce (1609)
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Publisher : Brill - Nijhoff
Total Pages : 10
Release :
ISBN-10 : 900427491X
ISBN-13 : 9789004274914
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis The Twelve Years Truce (1609) by : Randall Lesaffer

The Twelve Years Truce covers the legal history of a crucial text in the formation of the Republic of the Northern Netherlands as a sovereign power and highlights its significance in the formation of the early modern laws of war and peace.