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The Art of Staying Neutral
The Netherlands in the First World War, 1914-1918
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The Art of Staying Neutral offers a fascinating insight into the problems and challenges associated with neutrality in an age of 'total war'. It explains how the Netherlands upheld and protected its non-belligerency during the First World War despite constant interference from its warring neighbours.Staying neutral was an artform that the Dutch managed to master through clever diplomacy, conscientious adherence to international laws, comprehensive mobilisation of its armed forces, regular patrols of its territorial boundaries, careful policing of its citizens, and a decisive measure of good fortune. The Art of Staying Neutral makes important contributions to the study of neutrality and the domestic history of the Netherlands in this seminal world event.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- IntroductionThe War Knocked on Our Door, It Did Not Step Inside: The Netherlands and the Great War
- Chapter 1 A Nation Too Small to Commit Great Stupidities: The Netherlands and Neutrality
- Chapter 2 A Pack of Lions: The Dutch Armed Forces
- Chapter 3 Api Api: The Mobilisation: July-August 1914
- Chapter 4 Calm Amidst the Raging Waves: Defending Territorial Neutrality
- Chapter 5 Fugitives of War Refugees and Internees
- Chapter 6 Shifting Sand and Gravel: Military and Economic Neutrality
- Chapter 7 Somewhere Between War and Peace: The States of War and Siege
- Chapter 8 Ash-Grey with Neutrality: Safeguarding Neutrality in the State of Siege
- Chapter 9 The War for Bread and Guns: Supply and the Fate of a Small Nation
- Chapter 10 No More War! The Furore over Leave and Demobilisation
- Chapter 11 This Dreary War: Expressions of Popular Frustration
- Chapter 12 All Hell Has Broken Loose: The Year 1918
- Conclusion Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Paradox of Neutrality
- Appendix 1: Important Military Laws, 1827-1922
- Appendix 2: The Field Army, August 1914
- Appendix 3: Overview of the Netherlands’ Neutrality Declaration, 1914
- Appendix 4: Internment Camps in the Netherlands, 1914-1918
- Appendix 5: Overview of the Oorlogswet (War Law) 1899
- Appendix 6: State of War and State of Siege Declarations, 1914-1917
- Appendix 7: Mobilisation and Leave for Military, Landweer and Landstorm Troops
- Illustrations Credits
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index