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"The Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social policies such as cannabis and euthanasia. Yet the historical background for any of these quintessentially Dutch achievements is often unf…
Firenze e gli antichi Paesi Bassi: 1430-1530 : dialoghi tra artisti : da Jan Van Eyc…
by Meijer, Bert W., Bogers, Judie, Boskovits, Miklos, Branca, Mirella, Fahy, Everett, Labriola, Ada, Nuttall, Paula, Padovani, Serena, Ridderbos, Bernhard, Rohlmann, Michael, Sander, Jochen, Sman, Gert Jan van der, Stradiotti, Renata, Todini, Filippo, Urbach, Susan
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Charles V and Philip II -- Violent disturbances escalate to revolt -- Alva -- Diplomatic glove covers military fist - but neither have finances -- Spanish fury, unions and divisions -- Unscrupulous audacity of condottiere with the wily patience of a Jesuit -- "Ayey pitie de de p…
"In the typical narrative of modern Sino-European relations, George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role. His failure to open China to trade and diplomatic relations with Britain sets the stage for a long and bitter clash of cultures that led to the …
The first English translation of Professor Locher-Scholten's 1994 Dutch text, a study of the reaction to Dutch colonial expansion by the Sumatran sultanate of Jambi. The Dutch text has been called "an excellent teaching tool for work on the Netherlands imperial project " [Locher…
"Employing a blend of historical, philological, literary and linguistic methods, Richard Rowlands Verstegan: A Versatile Man in an Age of Turmoil paints a full-bodied portrait of Richard Rowlands Verstegan (or Verstegen, 1550?-1640) - a man whose multiple and variously-spelled n…
"This collection explores the networks that shaped ecological change within and between European and Middle Eastern empires during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is divided into three parts. The first focuses on the role of nation-building in trans-imperial ec…
The Glorious Revolution of 1688-91 was a fundamental watershed in the constitutional history of England; but the Revolution also extended to, and had a major impact on, Scotland, Ireland and North America, and had wide-ranging ramifications throughout Europe and especially in th…