Category Archives: Netherlands

The Story of Dutch Painting

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book … Continue reading

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Trading Places: The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice (Library of Economic History)

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The Limbourg Brothers: Reflections on the Origins and the Legacy of Three Illuminators from Nijmegen

Although the Nijmegen artists Herman, Paul and Jean de Limbourg were barely thirty years old when they suddenly died in 1416, they could already look back on a formidable career. Now, even almost six hundred years after their creation, their … Continue reading

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The Founding of the Dutch Republic: War, Finance, and Politics in Holland, 1572-1588

In 1572, towns in the province of Holland, led by William of Orange, rebelled against the government of the Habsburg Netherlands. The story of the Dutch Revolt is usually told in terms of fractious provinces that frustrated Orange’s efforts to … Continue reading

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The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger’s Spell is the true story of three men and an extraordinary deception: the revered artist Johannes Vermeer; the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him years later; and the … Continue reading

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The Scientific Correspondence of H.A. Lorentz: Volume I (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

This volume presents a selection of more than 400 letters from and to the Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928), covering the period from 1883 until a few months before his death. The letters included in … Continue reading

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BUFFALOES OVER SINGAPORE: RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Dutch Brewster Fighters in Action Over Malaya and the East Indies 1941-1942

The Brewster B-339 Buffalo received much criticism during its brief service with the RAF, some justified, some not. Some of the pilots who eventually flew it in combat were happy with their mounts, others hated it as an operational fighter. … Continue reading

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Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company (Studies in Comparative World History)

Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes … Continue reading

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Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands (Historical Dictionaries of Europe)

In contrast to its relatively small size, the Netherlands has been an important and influential state in Europe and the world. The Dutch have been agitators for independence, they have fought for rights, dominated the seas, and in past generations, … Continue reading

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Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815 (Tanap Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction)

This study of Dutch and British colonial intervention on Sri Lanka in the period 178 1815 provides a new over-all characterisation of the functioning and growth of the colonial state in a period of transition.

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