A History of Holland
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A History of Holland

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A History of Holland

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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...

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Information

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

Table of contents

  1. THE BURGUNDIAN NETHERLANDS
  2. HABSBURG RULE IN THE NETHERLANDS
  3. THE PRELUDE TO THE REVOLT
  4. THE REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS
  5. WILLIAM THE SILENT
  6. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
  7. THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
  8. THE TWELVE YEARS’ TRUCE
  9. MAURICE AND OLDENBARNEVELDT
  10. FROM THE END OF THE TWELVE YEARS’ TRUCE TO THE PEACE OF MUENSTER (1621-48). THE STADHOLDERATE OF FREDERICK HENRY OF ORANGE
  11. THE EAST AND WEST INDIA COMPANIES. COMMERCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPANSION
  12. LETTERS, SCIENCE AND ART
  13. THE STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM II. - THE GREAT ASSEMBLY
  14. THE RISE OF JOHN DE WITT. - THE FIRST ENGLISH WAR
  15. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JOHN DE WITT 1654-1665 - FROM THE PEACE OF WESTMINSTER TO THE OUT-BREAK OF THE SECOND ENGLISH WAR
  16. THE LAST YEARS OF DE WITT’S ADMINISTRATION, 1665-1672. THE SECOND ENGLISH WAR. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. THE FRENCH INVASION
  17. WAR WITH FRANCE AND ENGLAND. WILLIAM III, STADHOLDER. MURDER OF THE BROTHERS DE WITT, 1672
  18. THE STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM III, 1672-1688
  19. THE KING-STADHOLDER, 1688-1702
  20. THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION AND THE TREATIES OF UTRECHT, 1702-1715
  21. THE STADHOLDERLESS REPUBLIC, 1715-1740
  22. THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION WAR. WILLIAM IV, 1740-1751
  23. THE REGENCY OF ANNE AND OF BRUNSWICK. 1751-1766
  24. WILLIAM V. FIRST PERIOD, 1766-1780
  25. STADHOLDERATE OF WILLIAM V,continued, 1780-1788
  26. THE ORANGE RESTORATION. DOWNFALL OF THE REPUBLIC, 1788-1795
  27. THE BATAVIAN REPUBLIC, 1795-1806
  28. THE KINGDOM OF HOLLAND AND THE FRENCH ANNEXATION, 1806-1814
  29. THE FORMATION OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS, 1814-1815
  30. THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS—UNION OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM, 1815-1830
  31. THE BELGIAN REVOLUTION, 1830-1842
  32. WILLIAM II. REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION. 1842-1849
  33. REIGN OF WILLIAM III TO THE DEATH OF THORBECKE,1849-1872
  34. THE LATER REIGN OF WILLIAM III, AND THE REGENCY OF QUEEN EMMA, 1872-1898
  35. THE REIGN OF QUEEN WILHELMINA, 1898-1917
  36. EPILOGUE