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Author: Helmer J. Helmers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-23
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1107172268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
Author: Maarten Prak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-09-22
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521843522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip to the experiences of immigrants and Jews in Dutch society, the paintings of Vermeer and Rembrandt, and the ideas of Spinoza. He places the Dutch 'miracle' in a European context, examining the Golden Age both as the product of its own past and as the harbinger of a more modern, industrialised and enlightened society. A fascinating and accessible study, this 2005 book will prove invaluable reading to anyone interested in Dutch history.
Author: Benjamin Pohl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-09
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1108669786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Cambridge Companion offers readers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century: the age of William the Conqueror. Besides England, Normandy, and northern France, the volume also explores Scandinavia, the North Sea world, the insular world beyond the English Channel, and various parts of Continental Europe. This Companion features essays designed specifically for those wishing to advance their knowledge and understanding of this important period of European history using a holistic and contextual perspective, deliberately shifting the focus away from William the man and onto the rich and fascinating culture of the world in which he lived and ruled. This was not the age created by William, but the age that created him. With contributions by leading international experts, this volume provides an inclusive and innovative study companion that is both authoritative and timely.
Author: Arthur der Weduwen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-12-08
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0198926626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands. Der Weduwen provides an in-depth study of early modern state communication: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with political opponents. These communication strategies, including proclamations, the use of town criers, and the printing and affixing of hundreds of thousands of edicts, underpinned the political stability of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Based on systematic research in thirty-two Dutch archives, this book demonstrates for the first time how the wealthiest, most literate, and most politically participatory state of early modern Europe was shaped by the communication of political information. It makes a decisive case for the importance of communication to the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the extent to which early modern authorities relied on the active consent of their subjects to legitimise their government.
Author: Adam Sundberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-27
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1108831249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An environmental history of natural disasters during the eighteenth-century decline of the Dutch Republic.
Author: Michael North
Publisher:
Published: 1999-09-01
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780300081312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book Michael North examines the Dutch Golden Age, when the Netherlands boasted Europe's greatest number of cities & its highest literacy rate, with unusually large numbers of publicly & privately owned art works, religious tolerance, etc.
Author: Gijs Versteegen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9004436804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe.
Author: Michiel van Groesen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-09
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1107061172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Argues that Dutch Brazil is integral to Atlantic history and made an impact well beyond the colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.
Author: Arthur Weststeijn
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-12-23
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9004221409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first comprehensive study of the radical political thought of the brothers Johan and Pieter de la Court, two eminent theorists from the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic who played a pivotal role in the rise of commercial republicanism.
Author: John Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-21
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1000437361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Genocide denial not only abuses history and insults the victims but paves the way for future atrocities. Yet few, if any, books have offered a comparative overview and analysis of this problem. Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide? is a resource for understanding and countering denial. Denial spans a broad geographic and thematic range in its explorations of varied forms of denial—which is embedded in each stage of genocide. Ranging far beyond the most well-known cases of denial, this book offers original, pathbreaking arguments and contributions regarding: competition over commemoration and public memory in Ukraine and elsewhere transitional justice in post-conflict societies; global violence against transgender people, which genocide scholars have not adequately confronted; music as a means to recapture history and combat denial; public education’s role in erasing Indigenous history and promoting settler-colonial ideology in the United States; "triumphalism" as a new variant of denial following the Bosnian Genocide; denial vis-à-vis Rwanda and neighboring Congo (DRC). With contributions from leading genocide experts as well as emerging scholars, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, genocide studies, anthropology, political science, international law, gender studies, and human rights.
