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Author: William Temple
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1107698456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1673, and first published as this Cambridge edition in 1932, this text covers a diverse range of topics relating to the Netherlands.
Author: Marjolein C. 't Hart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-09-11
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0521581613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverview of the financial history of the Netherlands from the sixteenth century onwards.
Author: John Lothrop Motley
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frits van Oostrom
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9089640398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVijftig tijdperken, gebeurtenissen en personen die bepalend zijn geweest voor het beeld van de geschiedenis van Nederland vanaf de vroegste tijden tot heden.
Author: Evan Haefeli
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-04-08
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0812208951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion." For early American historians this statement, unique in the world at its time, lies at the root of American pluralism. New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty offers a new reading of the way tolerance operated in colonial America. Using sources in several languages and looking at laws and ideas as well as their enforcement and resistance, Evan Haefeli shows that, although tolerance as a general principle was respected in the colony, there was a pronounced struggle against it in practice. Crucial to the fate of New Netherland were the changing religious and political dynamics within the English empire. In the end, Haefeli argues, the most crucial factor in laying the groundwork for religious tolerance in colonial America was less what the Dutch did than their loss of the region to the English at a moment when the English were unusually open to religious tolerance. This legacy, often overlooked, turns out to be critical to the history of American religious diversity. By setting Dutch America within its broader imperial context, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty offers a comprehensive and nuanced history of a conflict integral to the histories of the Dutch republic, early America, and religious tolerance.
Author: Anne Kerr
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-05-14
Total Pages: 1341
ISBN-13: 0191044784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging dictionary contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. Over 4,000 clear, concise entries include biographies of key figures in world history (living and dead), separate entries for every country in the world (summarising key historical events), and in-depth entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and major conflicts and events and their after-effects. For this new edition, existing entries have been revised and updated to reflect the very latest global events including changes in leadership, wars, political situations, and the statistical information given for each country (population counts, currency, languages, religions). New entries have been included for key figures who have recently come to prominence and world events. The book also contains twenty-five detailed maps linked to key historical events and topics. These include the African slave trade, the Black Death, and the Normandy campaign. Also included are over 200 country maps. The dictionary is enhanced by entry-level web links which are accessed via a dedicated companion website. Encyclopedic in scope, this ambitious A to Z provides an excellent overview of world history both for students and anyone with an interest in the subject.
Author: Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-11-12
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780521804080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author: P. J. A. N. Rietbergen
Publisher: Vanderheide Publishing Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789061094401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe development of the Netherlands over the centuries has been a remarkable one. Situated at "the end of Europe," between land and water, its people have, for more than three thousand years, fought to make the best of a country unfavoured by nature. They have shaped it into one of the world's foremost economic powers but also, and even more importantly, into a society that prides itself on having reached a fair balance between material and social well-being. The history of this achievement is a fascinating one. Since time immemorial, it is the history of the struggle against the sea, of man seeking to dominate the forces of water. It is the history of the early medieval Dutch traders, who travelled all over Europe to sell their wares. It is the history of the activities ofthe world's first multinationals, the Dutch East and West India Companies, that spanned the entire globe. It is also the history of the loss of colonial empire and of the triumphant rebuilding of a mainly commercial economy into a mainly industrial one, whose activities, once again, span the globe. It is, of course, also the history of a culture to match, of commonsense and realism, of the wonderful works of art produced by the Dutch "Golden Age" of the seventeenth century and of the many attainments of Dutch civilization in more recent years. For all those who are often amazed at the industry and achievementsof this small nation, the "Short History of the Netherlands" offers a succinct historical tale that goes a long way to elucidate the country's past and, thus, explain its present.
Author: Joseph O'Neill
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-05-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0307377598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • "Netherland tells the fragmented story of a man in exile—from home, family and, most poignantly, from himself.” —Washington Post Book World In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. As the two men share their vastly different experiences of contemporary immigrant life in America, an unforgettable portrait emerges of an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality.
Author: André Holenstein
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9089640053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.
