A History of Holland

George Edmundson

• Publisher: Ozymandias Press
• Year: 2018
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781531289478
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

The title, "History of Holland," given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province of Holland took in the War of Independence and throughout the whole of the subsequent history of the Dutch state and people. In every language the country, comprising the provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Friesland, Gelderland, Overyssel and Groningen, has, from the close of the sixteenth century to our own day, been currently spoken of as Holland, and the people (with the solitary exception of ourselves) as 'Hollanders.' It is only rarely that the terms the Republic of the United Provinces, or of the United Netherlands, and in later times the Kingdom of the Netherlands, are found outside official documents...

Table of contents

• THE BURGUNDIAN NETHERLANDS
• HABSBURG RULE IN THE NETHERLANDS
• THE PRELUDE TO THE REVOLT
• THE REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS
• WILLIAM THE SILENT
• THE BEGINNINGS OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
• THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
• THE TWELVE YEARS’ TRUCE
• MAURICE AND OLDENBARNEVELDT
• FROM THE END OF THE TWELVE YEARS’ TRUCE TO THE PEACE OF MUENSTER (1621-48). THE STADHOLDERATE OF FREDERICK HENRY OF ORANGE
• THE EAST AND WEST INDIA COMPANIES. COMMERCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPANSION
• LETTERS, SCIENCE AND ART
• THE STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM II. - THE GREAT ASSEMBLY
• THE RISE OF JOHN DE WITT. - THE FIRST ENGLISH WAR
• THE ADMINISTRATION OF JOHN DE WITT 1654-1665 - FROM THE PEACE OF WESTMINSTER TO THE OUT-BREAK OF THE SECOND ENGLISH WAR
• THE LAST YEARS OF DE WITT’S ADMINISTRATION, 1665-1672. THE SECOND ENGLISH WAR. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. THE FRENCH INVASION
• WAR WITH FRANCE AND ENGLAND. WILLIAM III, STADHOLDER. MURDER OF THE BROTHERS DE WITT, 1672
• THE STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM III, 1672-1688
• THE KING-STADHOLDER, 1688-1702
• THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION AND THE TREATIES OF UTRECHT, 1702-1715
• THE STADHOLDERLESS REPUBLIC, 1715-1740
• THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION WAR. WILLIAM IV, 1740-1751
• THE REGENCY OF ANNE AND OF BRUNSWICK. 1751-1766
• WILLIAM V. FIRST PERIOD, 1766-1780
• STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM V,continued, 1780-1788
• THE ORANGE RESTORATION. DOWNFALL OF THE REPUBLIC, 1788-1795
• THE BATAVIAN REPUBLIC, 1795-1806
• THE KINGDOM OF HOLLAND AND THE FRENCH ANNEXATION, 1806-1814
• THE FORMATION OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS, 1814-1815
• THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS—UNION OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM, 1815-1830
• THE BELGIAN REVOLUTION, 1830-1842
• WILLIAM II. REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION. 1842-1849
• REIGN OF WILLIAM III TO THE DEATH OF THORBECKE,1849-1872
• THE LATER REIGN OF WILLIAM III, AND THE REGENCY OF QUEEN EMMA, 1872-1898
• THE REIGN OF QUEEN WILHELMINA, 1898-1917
• EPILOGUE