The low countries, 1780-1940

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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.

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Title Statements

Full title :The low countries, 1780-1940 / by E.H. Kossmann.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1978.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:1978.

Notes

Includes indexes.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 784 pages : : maps ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198221088, 9780198221081
oclc:ocm03447148
LC Classification:DJ202
Dewey Decimal:949.2

I. The revolutionary background, 11780-1795 -- 1. The Dutch Republic in the 1780s -- 2. The Austrian Netherlands in the 1780s -- II. The Great Revolution, 1792-1813 -- 1. A contrast : north and south during the French Revolution -- 2. The Southern Netherlands under French rule -- 3. The Batavian Revolution in the Northern Netherlands -- 4. The results -- III. The Great Netherlands hypothesis, 1813-1830 -- 1. The liberation of the low countries -- 2. William I's political system -- 3. The opposition to William I's system -- IV. In search of national principles, 1830-1848 -- 1. The Belgian Revolution -- 2. The Netherlands in the 1830s -- 3. Belgium in the 1830s -- 4. The Netherlands in the 1840s -- 5. Belgium in the 1840s -- V. Liberalism as a system, 1848-1879 -- 1. The character of the period -- 2. Belgium, 1848-1879 -- 3. The Netherlands, 1848-1879

VI. Towards democracy, 1879-1896 -- 1. Social tension and the franchise -- 2. The movements of the 1880s and radicalism -- 3. Socialist and confessional parties -- 4. Dutch domestic policy, 1887-1896 -- 5. Belgian domestic policy, 1884-1893 -- VII. Expansion, 1880-1914 -- 1. Belgian colonial policy -- 2. Dutch colonial policy -- 3. Th…

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Belgique -- Histoire Belgium Belgium -- History History Netherlands Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 Netherlands -- History -- 19th century Netherlands -- History -- 20th century Netherlands -- History -- Wilhelmina, 1… Pays-Bas -- 1898-1948 (Wilhelmine) Pays-Bas -- Histoire Pays-Bas -- Histoire -- 1714-1795 Pays-Bas -- Histoire -- 1898-1948 (Wilh… Pays-Bas -- Histoire -- 19e siècle Politieke geschiedenis