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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2017
Print publication year:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781139025447
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139025447
Subjects:
Area Studies, Politics: General Interest, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
Series:
Cambridge Concise Histories
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Book description

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 unfamiliar to outsiders. This Concise History offers an overview of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country. Beginning with the first humanoid settlers, the book follows the most important contours of Dutch history, from Roman times through to the Habsburgs, the Dutch Republic and the Golden Age. The author, a modernist, pays particularly close attention to recent developments, including the signature features of contemporary Dutch society. In addition to being a political history, this overview also gives systematic attention to social and economic developments, as well as in religion, the arts and the Dutch struggle against the water. The Dutch Caribbean is also included in the narrative.

Awards

Winner, 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Reviews

'In his sweeping and beautifully written history of the Netherlands, James C. Kennedy offers the reader a compelling story of Dutch history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century. He highlights the diverse nature of Dutch society, the heterogeneous quality of its politics, and its ability to adapt and thrive in the rapid currents of change. It's the story of a small country with a big history, whose legacy is global in impact. This is the best single volume history in English on the Netherlands.'

Peter Arnade - University of Hawaii

'With a stimulating mix of admiration and a keen eye for all its downsides, Kennedy explores and explains the remarkable historical ability of the Dutch to form a harmonious society out of different, often conflicting, parts. An illuminating guide to the past, and for the future.'

Jan Hein Furnée - Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands

'In seven crisply written chapters, James C. Kennedy offers us a comprehensive survey of the history of the Netherlands, one of Europe's most important small states, whose size belies its influence on European and even global economic, political and cultural history. Kennedy’s narrative highlights both the successes and failures of the Dutch experience and underscores the ongoing Dutch capacity for adaptability under changing and challenging historical circumstances.'

Christine Kooi - Louisiana State University

'During their Golden Age, the Dutch were ‘the wonder of all their neighbours’. In many ways, they still are. James C. Kennedy charts the unlikely history of this small but successful country, uncovering its secrets in lucid prose. A very impressive achievement.'

Maarten Prak - Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands

'James C. Kennedy has written a wonderful history of the Netherlands. This in itself is a marvelous thing, and Kennedy has done a great service to the field simply by offering us this concise and incisive book where none practically existed. But he offers much more: a beautifully presented, gracefully written and cogently argued case for the importance of Dutch history. An instant classic.'

Benjamin Schmidt - University of Washington

'This best comprehensive history of the Netherlands, with thorough coverage in a few hundred pages, is a marvel both in its evenhandedness and its beautiful writing. … Essential.'

J. J. Butt Source: Choice

'Just like his rendition of the historiographical state of the art in the rest of the book, I find Kennedy’s analysis of current political events (in which the work of several of his own students resonates) entirely recognizable and generally convincing. A Concise History of the Netherlands is therefore recommended for any reader, Dutch or non-Dutch, with an interest in the history of the Netherlands but little time to read.'

Joris Oddens Source: European History Quarterly

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Contents

Contents
References

Suggestions for Further Reading

Most works on Dutch history are in Dutch, not surprisingly. There is a modest amount that does appear in English, some of which is listed below for the benefit of the anglophone reader. For a more extensive bibliography that also indicates the Dutch-language sources I utilized in the translated version of this book please see James C. Kennedy, Een beknopte geschiedenis van Nederland (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2017). The list below is hardly exhaustive, but gives a good impression of the work available in English.

The books below also indirectly indicate which parts of Dutch history historians using the English language find most interesting. The Golden Age, of course, receives extensive attention, dwarfing interests in other parts of Dutch history. Dutch colonial history across the centuries also gets a fair amount of attention, and the twentieth century draws historians interested either in the World Wars or in the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Furthermore, Dutch economic historians have been more assiduous in presenting their part of history than other Dutch historians, as is also evident in this overview.

General Works

Arblaster, Paul, A History of the Low Countries (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Bank, Jan, van Es, Gijsbert and de Rooy, Piet, In Short, the Netherlands: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Dutch History (Wormer: Inmerc, 2005)
Beliën, Herman and van Hoogstraten, Monique, Dutch History in a Nutshell (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2016)
van Berkel, Klaas and de Goei, Leonie (eds.), The International Relevance of Dutch History. Low Countries Historical Review, 125.2–3 (2010)
Blom, J. C. H., Fuks-Mansfeld, Renate and Schöffer, Ivo (eds.), The History of the Jews in the Netherlands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Blom, J. C. H. and Lamberts, E. (eds.), History of the Low Countries, trans. James C. Kennedy (New York: Berghahn, 2006)
Fokkema, Douwe and Grijzenhout, Frans (eds.), Dutch Culture in a European Perspective, Vol. V: Accounting for the Past: 1650–2000 (Assen and Basingstoke: Royal Van Gorcum/Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
’t Hart, Marjolein, Jonker, Joost and van Zanden, Jan Luiten (eds.), A Financial History of the Netherlands (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Israel, Jonathan and Salverda, Reinier (eds.), Dutch Jewry: Its History and Secular Culture (1500–2000) (Leiden: Brill, 2002)
Kossmann-Putto, J. A. and Kossmann, E. H. The Low Countries: History of the Northern and Southern Netherlands, trans. J. Fenoulhet (Rekkem: Ons Erfdeel, 1997)
Krabbendam, Hans, van Minnen, Cornelis A. and Scott-Smith, Giles (eds.), Four Centuries of Dutch–American Relations, 1609–2009 (Amsterdam: Boom, 2009)
Lambert, A, The Making of the Dutch Landscape (London and New York: Seminar Press, 1985)
van Oostrom, Frits A Key to Dutch History: The Cultural Canon of the Netherlands (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007)
Rietbergen, Peter, A Short History of the Netherlands: From Pre-History to the Present Day, 10th edn (Amersfoort: Bekking & Blitz, 2014)
Selderhuis, Herman (ed.), Handbook of Dutch Church History (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015)
Shorto, Russell, Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City (New York: Doubleday, 2013)
Soltow, Lee and van Zanden, Jan Luiten, Income and Wealth Inequality in the Netherlands, 16th–20th Century (Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 1998)
Stevens, Harm, Shades of Orange: A History of the Royal House of the Netherlands, trans. Lynne Richards (Amsterdam and Zwolle: Rijksmuseum/Waanders, 2001)
van de Ven, Gerardus Petrus, Man-Made Lowlands: History of Water Management and Land Reclamation in the Netherlands, 4th rev. edn (Utrecht: Matrijs, 2004)
Vossestein, Jacob, The Dutch and Their Delta: Living below Sea Level (The Hague: XPat Media, 2011)
van der Wee, H. and Cauwenberghe, E. (eds.), Productivity of Land and Agricultural Innovation in the Low Countries (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1978)
Wielenga, Friso, A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day, trans. Lynne Richards (London: Bloomsbury, 2015)

Chapter 1 From the Margins to the Mainstream: Dutch History to 1384

Bachrach, Bernard S., Charlemagne’s Early Campaigns (768–777): A Diplomatic and Military Analysis (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
van Bavel, Bas, Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500–1600 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Boone, Marc and Howell, Martha, The Power of Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: The Cities of Italy, Northern France and the Low Countries (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013)
Brandt, Roel and Slofstra, Jan (eds.), Roman and Native in the Low Countries: Spheres of Interaction (Oxford: BAR, 1983)
Derks, Ton, Gods, Temples and Ritual Practices: The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul, Amsterdam Archaeological Studies, 2 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998)
J. R. Milis, Ludo, Religion, Culture, and Mentalities in the Medieval Low Countries: Selected Essays (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005)
Nicholas, David, Medieval Flanders (London: Longman, 1992)
Royman, N. and Theuws, F. (eds.), Images of the Past: Studies of Ancient Societies in Northwestern Europe, Studies in Prae- and Protohistory, 7 (Amsterdam: Instituut voor Pre- en Protohistorische Archeologie Albert Egges van Giffen, 1991)
Simons, Walter, Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200–1565 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
Story, Joanna, Charlemagne: Empire and Society (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005)
Tacitus, , Histories (London: Penguin, 2009)
Verhulst, Adriaan, The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Willems, W. J. H., Romans and Batavians: Regional Developments at the Imperial Frontier (Amersfoort: ROB, 1984)
Willemsen, Annemarieke and Kik, Hanneke (eds.), Golden Middle Ages in Europe: New Research into Early-Medieval Communities and Identities. Proceedings of the Second “Dorestad Congress” Held at the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden, The Netherlands 2–5 July, 2014 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015)
Wood, Ian, The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450–751 (London: Longman, 1994)
Woolf, Greg, Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Chapter 2 Rise of the Northern Netherlands, 1384–1588

Armstrong, C. A. J., England, France and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century (London: Hambledon Press, 1983)
Blockmans, Wim and Prevenier, Walter, The Promised Lands: The Low Countries under Burgundian Rule, 1369–1530, trans. Elizabeth Fackelman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)
van der Hoeven, Marco (ed.), Exercise of Arms: Warfare in the Netherlands, 1568–1648 (Leiden: Brill, 1997)
Huizinga, Johan, The Autumn of the Middle Ages, trans. R. J. Payton and U. Mammitzsch (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Israel, Jonathan, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Jardine, Lisa, The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun (New York: Harper, 2005)
Kaplan, Benjamin J., Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and Community in Utrecht, 1578–1620 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
Koenigsberger, Helmut Georg, Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
van Nierop, Henk, The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1300–1650 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
van Nierop, Henk, Treason in Holland: War, Terror and the Law in the Dutch Revolt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009)
Nijsten, Gerard, In the Shadow of Burgundy: The Court of Guelders in the Late Middle Ages, trans. Tanis Guest (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
van Oostrom, Frits, Court and Culture: Dutch Literature 1350–1450 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992)
Parker, Geoffrey, The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567–1659: The Logistics of Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Parker, Geoffrey, The Dutch Revolt (London: Pelican, 1985)
Pollmann, Judith, Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520–1635 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Prevenier, Walter and Blockmans, Wim, The Burgundian Netherlands (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Scheepsma, Wybren, Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries: The “Modern Devotion,” the Canonesses of Windesheim and Their Writings, trans. David F. Johnson (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004)
Scheltjens, Werner, Dutch Deltas: Emergence, Functions and Structure of the Low Countries’ Maritime Transport System, ca. 1300–1850 (Leiden: Brill, 2015)
Scholden, Frits, Woodall, Joanna and Meijders, Dulcia (eds.), Art and Migration: Netherlandish Artists on the Move, 1400–1750 (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
Stein, Robert and Pollmann, Judith (eds.), Networks, Regions and Nations: Shaping Identities in the Low Countries, 1300–1650 (Leiden: Brill, 2010)
Swart, K. W., William of Orange and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1572–84, with introductory chapters by Duke, Alastair and Israel, Jonathan I.; trans. J. C. Grayson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003)
Tracy, James D., The Founding of the Dutch Republic: War, Finance and Politics in Holland, 1572–1588 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Tracy, James D., Holland under Habsburg Rule, 1506–1566: The Formation of a Body Politic (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
de Vries, Jan and van der Woude, Ad, The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Zuijderduijn, C. J., Medieval Capital Markets: Markets for Renten, State Formation and Private Investment in Holland (1300–1550) (Leiden: Brill, 2009)

Chapter 3 A Young Republic’s Golden Age, 1588–1672

Alpers, Svetlana, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)
van Berkel, Klaas, van Helden, Albert and Palm, Lodewijk (eds.), A History of Science in the Netherlands: Survey, Themes and Reference (Leiden: Brill, 1999)
Boxer, Charles R., The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600–1800 (London: Hutchinson, 1977)
Bruijn, Jaap R., van Reine, Ronald Prud’homme and Hövell tot Westerflier, Rolof van (eds.), De Ruyter: Dutch Admiral (Rotterdam: Karwansaray Publishers, 2011)
Cook, H. J., Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)
Dash, Mike, Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002)
Davids, Karel and Lucassen, Jan (eds.), A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch Republic in European Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Davids, Karel and Noordegraaf, Leo (eds.), The Dutch Economy in the Golden Age: Nine Studies (Amsterdam: Het Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, 1993)
van Deursen, A. T., Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Frijhoff, Willem and Spies, Marijke (eds.), Dutch Culture in European Perspective, Vol. I: 1650: Hard-Won Unity (Assen and Basingstoke: Royal Van Gorcum/Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Gelderblom, Oscar (ed.), The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009)
Goldgar, Anne, Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)
Harline, Craig E., Pamphlets, Painting and Political Culture in the Early Dutch Republic (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987)
van den Heuvel, Daniëlle, Women and Entrepreneurship: Female Traders in the Northern Netherlands, c. 1580–1815 (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2007)
Israel, Jonathan, Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585–1740 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
van Ittersum, Martine, Profit and Principle: Hugo Grotius, Natural Rights Theories and the Rise of Dutch Power in the East Indies, 1595–1615 (Leiden: Brill, 2006)
Jacobs, Jaap, New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America (Leiden: Brill, 2005)
Kaplan, Benjamin (ed.), Catholic Communities in Protestant States: Britain and the Netherlands, c. 1570–1720 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009)
Kloek, Els, Teeuwen, Nicole and Huisman, Marijke (eds.), An International Debate on Women in Seventeenth-Century Holland, England and Italy (Hilversum: Verloren, 1994)
Lesaffer, Randall (ed.), The Twelve Years Truce (1609): Peace, Truce and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
Maissen, Thomas and Prak, Maarten (eds.), The Republican Alternative: The Netherlands and Switzerland Compared (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008)
McCants, Anne E. C., Civic Care in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997)
van Nimwegen, Olaf, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588–1688, trans. Andrew May (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010)
Otto, Paul, The Dutch–Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley (New York: Berghahn, 2006)
Page, Willie F., The Dutch Triangle: The Netherlands and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1621–1664 (New York: Garland, 1997)
Parker, Charles H., The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572–1620 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Po-Chia-Hsia, R. and van Nierop, Henk (eds.), Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Postma, Johannes M., The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Postma, Johannes and Enthoven, Victor (eds.), Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585–1817 (Leiden: Brill, 2003)
Prak, Maarten, The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Prak, Maarten, Catharina Lis, Jan Lucassen and Hugo Soly, Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power and Representation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)
Leslie Price, J., Dutch Culture in a Golden Age (London: Reaktion Books, 2011)
Reinders, Michel, Printed Pandemonium: Popular Print and Politics in the Netherlands, 1650–1672 (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
Rowen, H., Johan de Witt, Statesman of the “True Freedom” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Schama, Simon, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (New York: Knopf, 1987)
Schilling, Heinz, Religion, Political Culture and the Emergence of Early Modern Society: Essays in German and Dutch History (Leiden: Brill, 1992)
Schmidt, Benjamin, Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570–1670 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Sluijter, Eric Jan, Seductress of Sight: Studies in Dutch Art of the Golden Age, trans. Jennifer Kilian (Zwolle: Waanders, 2000)
Verbeek, Theo, Descartes and the Dutch: Early Reactions to Cartesian Philosophy (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992)
Westermann, Mariët, A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic, 1585–1718 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005)
Weststeijn, Arthur, Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age: The Political Thought of Johan and Pieter de la Court (Leiden: Brill, 2012)
van Zanden, Jan Luijten, The Rise and Decline of Holland’s Economy: Merchant Capitalism and the Labour Market (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993)
Zandvliet, Kees (ed.), The Dutch Encounter with Asia, 1600–1950 (Zwolle and Amsterdam: Waanders/Rijksmuseum, 2002)

Chapter 4 Diminishing Returns and New Hopes, 1672–1795

Berkvens-Stevelinck, C., Israel, Jonathan and Posthumus-Meyjes, G. H. M. (eds.), The Emergence of Tolerance in the Dutch Republic (Leiden: Brill, 1997)
Brusse, Paul and Mijnhardt, Wijnand W., Towards a New Template for Dutch History: De-Urbanization and the Balance between City and Countryside (Zwolle: Waanders, 2011)
van Bunge, Wiep (ed.), The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650–1750 (Leiden: Brill, 2003)
Carter, Alice C., The Dutch Republic in Europe in the Seven Years’ War (London: Macmillan, 1971)
Coenen, Ann, Carriers of Growth? International Trade and Economic Development in the Austrian Netherlands (Leiden: Brill, 2014)
Davids, Karel, The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership: Economy and Culture in the Netherlands, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
van Eijnatten, Joris, Liberty and Concord in the United Provinces: Religious Toleration and the Public in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands (Leiden: Brill, 2003)
Emmer, Pieter, The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580–1880: Trade, Slavery and Emancipation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998)
Fix, Andrew, Fallen Angels: Balthasar Bekker, Spirit Belief and Confessionalism in the Seventeenth Century Dutch Republic (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999)
Frijhoff, Willem, Embodied Belief: Ten Essays on Religious Culture in Dutch History (Hilversum: Verloren, 2002)
Hunt, Lynn, Jacob, Margaret C. and Mijnhardt, Wijnand, The Book that Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard’s “Religious Ceremonies of the World” (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010)
Israel, Jonathan, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Jacob, Margaret C. and Mijnhardt, Wijnand W. (eds.), The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century: Decline, Enlightenment and Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1992)
Jardine, Lisa, Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory (London: Harper, 2008)
Kaplan, Benjamin J., Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014)
van der Linden, David, Experiencing Exile: Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680–1700 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015)
Mijers, Esther and Onnekink, David (eds.), Redefining William III: The Impact of the King-Stadholder in International Context (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)
Nierstrasz, Chris, In the Shadow of the Company: The Dutch East India Company and Its Servants in the Period of Its Decline, 1740–1796, ed. Robson-McKillop, Rosemary (Leiden: Brill, 2012)
Ormrod, David, The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650–1770 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Satterfield, George, Princes, Posts and Partisans: The Army of Louis XIV and Partisan Warfare in the Netherlands (1673–1678) (Leiden: Brill, 2003)
Schama, Simon, Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780–1813 (New York: Knopf, 1977)
TeBrake, Wayne P., Regents and Rebels: The Revolutionary World of an Eighteenth-Century Dutch City (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Temple, William, Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands, reprinted with introduction by Clark, G. N. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Velema, Wyger, Republicans: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Dutch Political Thought (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
Wielema, M., The March of the Libertines: Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church (1660–1750) (Hilversum: Verloren, 2004)

Chapter 5 Building a Nation-State, 1795–1870

Aaslestad, Katherine B. and Joor, Johan (eds.), Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System: Local, Regional and European Experiences (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Bos, David, Servants of the Kingdom: Professionalization among Ministers of the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands Reformed Church, trans. David McKay (Leiden: Brill, 2010)
Dunthorne, Hugh and Wintle, Michael (eds.), The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
Fasseur, C., The Politics of Colonial Exploitation: Java, the Dutch and the Cultivation System (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992)
Fishman, J. S., Diplomacy and Revolution: The London Conference of 1830 and the Belgian Revolt (Amsterdam: CHEV, 1988)
Forrest, Alan, Great Battles: Waterloo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Kloek, Joost and Mijnhardt (eds.), Wijnand, Dutch Culture in a European Perspective, Vol. II: 1800: Blueprints for a National Community (Assen and Basingstoke: Royal Van Gorcum/Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Kossmann, E. H., The Low Countries, 1780–1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978)
Mokyr, J., Industrialization in the Low Countries, 1795–1850 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976)
Moore, Bob and van Nierop, Henk (eds.), Colonial Empires Compared: Britain and the Netherlands, 1750–1850 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003)
Oddens, Joris, Rutjes, Mart and Jacobs, Erik (eds.), The Political Culture of the Sister Republics, 1794–1806: France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015)
Oostindie, Gert (ed.), Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit (Leiden: KITLV, 1995)
de Rooy, Piet, A Tiny Spot on the Earth: The Political Culture of the Netherlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015)
Wood, John Halsey, Jr., Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper’s Struggle for a Free Church in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
van Zanden, Jan Luiten and van Riel, Arthur, The Structures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)

Chapter 6 Progress and Crisis, 1870–1949

Aalbers, Gerard, Nazi Looting: The Plunder of Dutch Jewry during the Second World War (Oxford: Berg, 2004)
Abbenhuis, Maartje, The Art of Staying Neutral: The Netherlands in the First World War (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006)
Amersfoort, Herman and Kamphuis, Piet (eds.), May 1940: The Battle for the Netherlands, trans. Fiona Nauta (Leiden: Brill, 2010)
Bank, Jan and van Buuren, Martine (eds.), Dutch Culture in a European Perspective, Vol. III: 1900: The Age of Bourgeois Culture (Assen and Basingstoke: Royal Van Gorcum/Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Bratt, James D., Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013)
Cohen, Jaap The Cohen Book: The History of a Dutch Jewish Family from the 17th to the 20th Century, trans. and annot. Herman, Sam (Amsterdam: Manesseh ben Israel Instituut, 2016)
Cribb, Robert, Gangsters and Revolutionaries: The Jakarta People’s Militias and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945–1949 (North Sydney: Allen & Unwin/Asian Studies Association of Australia, 1991)
Cribb, Robert (ed.), The Late Colonial State in Asia: Political and Economic Foundations of the Netherlands Indies, 1880–1942 (Leiden: KITLV, 1994)
Dewulf, Jeroen, Spirit of Resistance: Dutch Clandestine Literature during the Nazi Occupation (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010)
Frankema, Ewout and Buelens, Frans (eds.), Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development: The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies Compared (London: Routledge, 2013)
Fuykschot, Cornelia, Hunger in Holland: Life during the Nazi Occupation (New York: Prometheus, 1988)
Galema, Annemieke, Henkes, Barbara and te Velde, Henk (eds.), Images of the Nation: Different Meanings of Dutchness, 1870–1940 (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1993)
Gouda, Frances, Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands-Indies, 1900–1942 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1995)
de Haan, Francisca, Gender and the Politics of Office Work in the Netherlands, 1860–1940 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998)
Hiemstra, John, Worldviews in the Air: The Struggle to Create a Pluralist Broadcasting System in the Netherlands (Lanham: University Press of America, 1997)
Hirschfeld, Gerhard, Nazi Rule and Dutch Collaboration: The Netherlands under German Occupation, trans. Louise Willmot (Oxford: Berg, 1988)
Kalb, Don, Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities. The Netherlands, 1850–1950 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997)
Klinkert, Wim, Defending Neutrality: The Netherlands Prepares for War, 1900–1925 (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
van der Laarse, Robert, A Nation of Notables: Class, Politics, and Religion in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century (Salford: European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, 1999)
Legêne, Susan and van Dijk, Janneke (eds.), The Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum: A Colonial History (Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2011)
Luttikhuis, Bart and Dirk Moses, A. (eds.), Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia (London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2014)
Moore, Bob, Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1941–1945 (London: Arnold, 1997)
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