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A History of the Netherlands
From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
Friso Wielenga, Lynne Richards
- 352 pages
- English
- PDF
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A History of the Netherlands
From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
Friso Wielenga, Lynne Richards
About This Book
Books offering an overview of Dutch history are few and far between in the English-speaking world. Friso Wielenga's A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day fills this gap. It offers a modern, integrated outline of Dutch history from the period in which the country took shape as a geographical, administrative and political entity and undermines the presumption that Dutch history since the 16th century was characterised by political consensus and religious toleration. Domestic and foreign politics take pride of place, interwoven with the broad lines of economic and cultural developments, as Wielenga uses the Netherlands' geographical location and its international relations to better understand the partially tumultuous past and present of this small land on the North Sea.
A History of the Netherlands provides an authoritative, comprehensive in-depth survey and will be of great value to students of modern European history.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Opposition and revolt: The creation and consolidation of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, or the Dutch Republic (1555–1609)
- Chapter 3 The Republic in the Golden Age
- Chapter 4 A second-rate power: The decline of the Republic in the eighteenth century
- Chapter 5 From restoration to the liberal era (1813–1917)
- Chapter 6 Stability and modernization: The Netherlands since 1918
- Chapter 7 Epilogue
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- General Index