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Author: Anton Poot
Publisher: Uitgeverij Verloren
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9087043805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyse van de verhoudingen tussen de jonge Nederlandse Republiek en het Engeland van Karel I, met name in diens beginjaren (1625-1629) en de periode van de personal rule (1629-1640).
Author: Rupali Mishra
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018-05-07
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0674984714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company’s beginnings in the early seventeenth century has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra’s account of the East India Company’s formative years sheds new light on one of the most powerful corporations in the history of the world. From its birth in 1600, the East India Company lay at the heart of English political and economic life. The Company’s fortunes were determined by the leading figures of the Stuart era, from the monarch and his privy counselors to an extended cast of eminent courtiers and powerful merchants. Drawing on a host of overlooked and underutilized sources, Mishra reconstructs the inner life of the Company, laying bare the era’s fierce struggles to define the difference between public and private interests and the use and abuse of power. Unlike traditional accounts, which portray the Company as a private entity that came to assume the powers of a state, Mishra’s history makes clear that, from its inception, the East India Company was embedded within—and inseparable from—the state. A Business of State illuminates how the East India Company quickly came to inhabit such a unique role in England’s commercial and political ambitions. It also offers critical insights into the rise of the early modern English state and the expansion and development of its nascent empire.
Author: Joop W. Koopmans
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-11-05
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1442255935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 centralized state. Before those years it had been one of few republics in Europe for about two centuries. That state was a confederacy, which emerged in the 1580s during its independence struggle against the Spanish Habsburgs. Although the present state is still monarchial, the Netherlands functions as a modern constitutional democracy, in which the king’s position is almost comparable with a ceremonial presidency. The majority of the Dutch population, however, appreciates the hereditary political presence of the House of Orange-Nassau, regarding this dynasty as a symbol of national unity and connection with the country’s past. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Netherlands.
Author: Marco Barducci
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-04-28
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0191069590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 is a reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Engaging with the reception of all of Grotius's key works and a wide range of topics, the volume has much to say about the search for peace in an age of religious conflict and about the cultural roots of the Enlightenment. Most of all, Marco Barducci aims to deepen our understanding of the connections that made English political thought part of the history of European thought. To this end, it brings together a succinct account of Grotius's own thinking on key topics, mapping these accounts within English debates, to show why his ideas were seen to be relevant at key moments; shows awareness of the possibilities for the misappropriation inherent in reception; and adds something new to our understanding of why seventeenth-century Englishmen argued in the ways that they did.
Author: Lotte Jensen
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9048530644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in the shaping of European nations in the period, while also offering an overview of current debates in the field and case studies on a number of topics, including literature, historiography, and cartography.
Author: David Ormrod
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1783273240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reassessment of the Anglo-Dutch wars of the second half of the seventeenth century, demonstrating that the conflict was primarily about trade.
Author: James Bander
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: 2014-12-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1848321570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor most of the seventeenth century the Netherlands constituted the most important maritime power in the world, with by far the largest merchant fleet and a dominance in seaborne trade that other countries feared and envied. Born out of an 80-year struggle against Spain for independence, the Dutch republic relied on naval power to guarantee its freedom, promote its trade and defend its overseas colonies. The Dutch navy was crucial to its survival and success, yet the ships that made up its fleets are among the least studied of any in the age of sail. The reasons for this include a decentralised administration of five separate admiralties, often producing ships of the same name at the same time, the widespread co-opting of merchantmen into naval fleets, and competing systems of measuring ships, all of which leads to confusion and error.?The most significant contribution of this book is to produce the first definitive listing of all Dutch fighting ships ÛÒ whether purpose-built, purchased, hired or captured ÛÒ from the heyday of the United Provinces, complete with technical details and summaries of their careers. It also provides an appreciation of the administrative, economic and technical background, and outlines the many campaigns fought by one of the most successful navies in history. ?With its unique depth of information, this is a work of the utmost importance to every naval historian and general reader interested in the navies of the sailing era.
Author: David Veevers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 110848395X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revisionist interpretation of the origins of the British Empire in Asia from 1600 to 1750.
Author: David Onnekink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-06
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1107125812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an overview of early modern Dutch history in global context, focusing on themes that resonate with current concerns.
Author: Stephanie Downes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-03
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0429821115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century, and Romantic studies. The assembled essays trace continuities and changes in the emotional register of war, as it has been mediated by the written record over six centuries. Through its wide selection of sites of utterance, genres of writing and contexts of publication and reception, Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854 analyses the emotional history of war in relation to both the changing nature of conflicts and the changing creative modes in which they have been arrayed and experienced. Each chapter explores how different forms of writing defines war – whether as political violence, civilian suffering, or a theatre of heroism or barbarism – giving war shape and meaning, often retrospectively. The volume is especially interested in how the written production of war as emotional experience occurs within a wider historical range of cultural and social practices. Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions will be of interest to students of the history of emotions, the history of pre-modern war and war literature.
