Across America with the King of the Belgians
Author: Pierre Goemaere
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton [c1921]
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 164
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Author: Pierre Goemaere
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton [c1921]
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry G. Bayer
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Judge
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9462701571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew and comprehensive insights into the seminal events that shaped Belgian identity 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 Habsburg Empire ruled by Joseph II. In 1789 revolutionaries from Brussels to Ghent to Namur recruited a grass-roots army that, to the surprise of many, successfully chased imperial forces from the majority of the territories. The exhilaration of military triumph and political independence quickly faded as revolutionary factions fought each other and the European monarchies became more nervous in the face of French radicalization. Yet, the course of events had fostered the solidification of a new identity among the provinces’ inhabitants: Belgianness. This is the story of the emergence of Belgianness in the crucible of revolution. The United States of Belgium tells the story of the First Belgian Revolution before the creation of a language barrier between French and Dutch. It incorporates over 50 contemporary images of the revolutionary era.
Author: Bernard A. Cook
Publisher: Discovering the Peoples of Mic
Published: 2007-11-08
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the beginning of the twenty-first century, Michigan was home to the second-largest Belgian population in the United States, and Detroit had one of the largest Belgian populations in the nation. Belgian-Americans continue to incorporate traditional values with newfound American values, enabling them to forever preserve their heritage.
Author: België. Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 91
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Kiely Gorman
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jan Bell Groh
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1994-07
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1557283257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the suffragist activities of the 1920s and the heightened pressures brought to bear on traditionally “male-only” institutions in American society during the past three decades, many vocations remain sanctuaries of male dominance. One such area is the classical music world; though, as Jan Bell Groh asserts in Evening the Score, inroads into this field have bene made, sometimes at great cost. At the center of this work is a unique set of newsletters edited and published by Frédérique Petrides, one of America’s first and most influential female conductors. In Petride’s time, most women musicians were forced to ply their trade in all-female orchestras; through the thirty-seven issues of Women in Music published from 1935 to 1940, the achievements of these musicians were championed, and the prejudices, misconceptions, and deliberately discriminatory policies of many of their male counterparts were exposed and condemned. Evening the Score is an ambitious endeavor that seeks not only to preserve these early documents and explain them within the context of the 1930s music industry but also to garner for Petrides the long-overdue praise to which she is entitled. It is at once a celebration and a source of inspiration.
Author: Samuel Humes
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781849041461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis concise history describes the traditions and transitions that over two thousand years have developed in Belgium in a sense of shared identity, common government, and a centralized nation-state - and then over a few recent decades paved the way for Flemish-Walloon schism that now threatens to break up Belgium. It responds to the question: Why does a government, unified for more than 600 years, no longer seem capable of holding together a linguistically divided country In tracing the evolution of Belgian governance, Humes describes why and how the dominance of French-speaking propertied elite eroded after having monopolized the land's governance for centuries. The extension of suffrage, combined with the rise of literacy and schooling enabled labor and Flemish movements to gather sufficient momentum to fracture the Belgian polity, splitting its parties and frustrating its politics. The presence of the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has, in a tangential way, enable the Belgian separatists to discount the merit of a national government that is no longer needed to defend the country militarily and economically.
Author: Jonathan E. Helmreich
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Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780874136531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work analyzes the contrasting diplomatic styles of Belgian foreign ministers Paul-Henri Spaak and Paul van Zeeland and the atmosphere of disappointment that often hovered over a relationship officially characterized as warm and strong.
Author: United States
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 20
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