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Networks, Regions and Nations
BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00The medieval and early modern Low Countries are a case in point. In this myriad of political and clerical territories, identities proved dynamic. Princes and rebels, soldiers and poets, all played a part in the shaping of new imagined communities. The essays in this volume show how regional and interregional identities developed, old ones survived,... more...
The Curtain
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 12.95Henry Schogt met his wife, Corrie, in 1954 in Amsterdam. Each knew the other had grown up in the Netherlands during World War II, but for years they barely spoke of their experiences. This was true for many people - the memories were just too painful. Years later, Henry and Corrie began to piece their memories together, to untangle reality from dreams.... more...
The Princes of Orange
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 46.00This major study provides the first comprehensive assessment of an important European institution, the Stadholderate of the Dutch Republic. Professor Rowen looks at the career of each Prince of Orange in turn, from William I ('The Silent'), to the more...
Marked for Death
Regnery Publishing 2012; US$ 27.95Marked for Death Fanatics, terrorists, and appeasers have tried everything to silence Geert Wilders, Europe?s most controversial Member of Parliament?from putting him on trial to putting a price on his head. But Wilders refuses to be silenced?and one result is the book you have in your hands. For years, from his native Netherlands, Wilders has... more...
The Netherlands
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 35.95The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European and Islamic cultures. Perhaps the most secular nation in the world, it now... more...
Silk for Silver
BRILL 2007; US$ 116.00Based on a wealth of so far unused primary sources from the Dutch East India Company archives, this work explains how Dutch and Chinese maritime traders played a critical role in Tonkin's dramatic emergence as a trading power. more...
Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Reaktion Books 2012; US$ 39.95The seventeenth century is considered the Dutch Golden Age, a time when the Dutch were at the forefront of social change, economics, the sciences, and art. In Dutch Culture in the Golden Age , eminent historian J. L. Price goes beyond the standard descriptions of the cultural achievements of the Dutch during this time by placing these many achievements... more...
The Republican Alternative
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 49.95A comprehensive survey of the constitutional history of the Netherlands and Switzerland, and a remarkable socio-historical commentary on these two remarkably successful democracies more...







