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History Of The Low Countries

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Author : J. C. H. Blom
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2006-06

History Of The Low Countries written by J. C. H. Blom and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06 with History categories.

The history of the smaller European countries is rather neglected in the teaching of European history at university level. We are therefore pleased to announce the publication of the first comprehensive history of the Low Countries - in English - from Roman Times to the present. Remaining politically and culturally fragmented, with its inhabitants speaking Dutch, French, Frisian, and German, the Low Countries offer a fascinating picture of European history en miniature. For historical reasons, parts of northern France and western Germany also have to be included in the "Low Countries," a term that must remain both broad and fluid, a convenient label for a region which has seldom, if ever, composed a unified whole. In earlier ages it as even more difficult to the region set parameters, again reflecting Europe as a whole, when tribes and kingdoms stretched across expanses not limited to the present states of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Nevertheless, its parts did demonstrate many common traits and similar developments that differentiated them from surrounding countries and lent them a distinct character. Internationally, the region often served both as a mediator for and a buffer to the surrounding great powers, France, Britain, and Germany; an important role still played today as Belgium and the Netherlands have increasingly become involved in the broader process of European integration, in which they often share the same interest and follow parallel policies. This highly illustrated volume serves as an ideal introduction to the rich history of the Low Countries for students and the generally interested reader alike.

History Of The Low Countries

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Author : Pieter Geyl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964

History Of The Low Countries written by Pieter Geyl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Belgium categories.

Discusses historical questions related to men and events in Holland's history from 1566 to 1957.

A History Of The Low Countries

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Author : Paul Arblaster
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2005-12-23

A History Of The Low Countries written by Paul Arblaster and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-23 with History categories.

This is the first full historical survey of the Benelux area (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) to be written in English. Paul Arblaster describes the whole sweep of the history of the Low Countries, from Roman frontier provinces, through medieval principalities, to the establishment of the three constitutional monarchies of the present day. This readable overview highlights the international importance of the social, economic , spiritual, and cultural movements that have marked the region.

Narratives Of Low Countries History And Culture

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Author : Jane Fenoulhet
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2016-11-07

Narratives Of Low Countries History And Culture written by Jane Fenoulhet and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-07 with History categories.

This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

The Low Countries 1780 1940

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Author : Ernst Heinrich Kossmann
language : en
Publisher: Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1978

The Low Countries 1780 1940 written by Ernst Heinrich Kossmann and has been published by Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Belgium categories.

This history of Belgium and the Netherlands is the first major study in English to treat them as nations in their own right, while placing them in a wider European and world context.

The Low Countries A History

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Author : Anthony Bailey
language : en
Publisher: New Word City
Release Date : 2016-03-29

The Low Countries A History written by Anthony Bailey and has been published by New Word City this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with History categories.

Here, from British historian and New Yorker senior writer Anthony Bailey is the dramatic story of the Low Countries - Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg - from the early days of nomads and barbarian invaders to the birth of towns and cities to the rise and decline of world prominence and finally to the dark and tragic days of World War II.

From Revolt To Riches

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Author : Theo Hermans
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2017-03-28

From Revolt To Riches written by Theo Hermans and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with History categories.

This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted in the radically new conditions – political, economic and intellectual – of the Dutch Republic in its Golden Age. While many aspects of this rich and nuanced era have been studied before, the emphasis of this volume is on a series of interactions and interrelations: between communities and their varying but often cognate languages; between different but overlapping spheres of human activity; between culture and history. The chapters are written by historians, linguists, bibliographers, art historians and literary scholars based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States. In continually crossing disciplinary, linguistic and national boundaries, while keeping the culture and history of the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Golden Age in focus, this book opens up new and often surprising perspectives on a region all the more intriguing for the very complexity of its entanglements.