The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876

Author: J. F. Loubat

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13:

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The following book covers the history behind the development and distribution of U.S. Army Force medals since the year that the U.S. became independent. These include service ribbons and specific badges which recognize military service and personal accomplishments while serving as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces. Such awards are a means to outwardly display the highlights of a service member's career.

Warfare and the Age of Printing (4 vols.)
Warfare and the Age of Printing (4 vols.)

Author: Louis Sloos

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-01-31

Total Pages: 2008

ISBN-13: 904742588X

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An important part of the Dutch national treasure of early printed books from before 1801 on military and related subjects is kept in military libraries and collections. This catalogue contains 10,000 books in twelve different languages dated 1500–1800 from nine different Defence institutions/collections, representing both Army and Navy. By far the largest collections are the property of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum in Delft and the Royal Netherlands Military Academy in Breda. A great if not substantial part of these books is especially of international significance because of the contents, the intrinsic value or as historical objects. It took eight years to trace and describe these books, all of which have been given extensive analytical bibliographic descriptions. The book includes over 2000 illustrations. The book is a project of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum, Delft

Reinterpreting the Dutch Forty Years War, 1672–1713
Reinterpreting the Dutch Forty Years War, 1672–1713

Author: David Onnekink

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-18

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1349951366

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This book aims to reinterpret current perceptions of the Dutch Forty Years War (1672-1713), usually regarded as a struggle against the expansionism of Louis XIV, birthing the European balance of power. Particular attention is given to recent international relations theory, through the examination of popular and official documents, as well as political and diplomatic correspondence. While focusing on the emergence and appropriation of Universal Monarchy and Balance of Power discourses, this book also provides counter discourses, allowing readers to explore the lively domestic debate on foreign policy along partisan lines.

Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands
Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

Author: V. Lunsford

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-06-03

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1403979383

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This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading,exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Surprisingly, this story of Dutch freebooters and their depredations remains almost entirely untold until now. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality.

Voc: A Bibliography of Publications Relating to the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1800
Voc: A Bibliography of Publications Relating to the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1800

Author: John Landwehr

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 9004619674

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At the height of its power and influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth century the VOC - acronym for the United Netherland East India Company - was the greatest commercial concern in the world. The scope of its activities extended from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan. In some aspects, the Baltic trade and the North Sea fisheries were of more fundamental relevance for the economy of the Lowlands. But it was the more spectacular East Indian trade which aroused the admiration and the envy of foreigners, sometimes to the point of war. In this bibliography several topics are covered. Not only technical matters such as the legal status of the VOC, its management, directors and shareholders, but also subjects as voyages, battles, ship building, navigation, geography, natural history, ethnography, mission work, ministration, and many others. With 1674 entries, fully described and fully indexed.