Synopses & Reviews
"Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster forms the inaugural volume of a new series, the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe, and offers a comprehensive, integrated account of the northern part of the Netherlands over almost 350 years...
The Dutch Republic represents the fruit of 12 years of research, contemplation and writing, and brims over with interesting detail."--
The New York Times Book Review"Israel performs the great service of charting a path through this literature and presents a coherent and comprehensive picture of the Dutch Republic.... Comprehensive in scope and yet so clearly and carefully written that it could serve as a textbook for graduate history courses. Because it is so thoroughly researched and up-to-date, it is also the kind of indispensable handbook that deserves a place on every early modernist's bookshelf."--American Historical Review
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"Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster...offers a comprehensive, integrated account of the northern part of the Netherlands over almost 350 years...[it] represents the fruit of 12 years of research, contemplation and writing, and brims over with interesting detail." The New York Times Book Review
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"Those with a serious interest in the history of the Netherlands will not only have to read this book, they will enjoy it." Sixteenth Century Journal
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"Because it is so thoroughly researched and up-to-date, it is...the kind of indispensable handbook that deserves a place on every early modernist's bookshelf." American Historical Review
Synopsis
The Dutch Golden Age, known for its renowned artists and writers, was also remarkable for its immense impact on the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. Israel gives the definitive account of the emergence of the United Provinces as a great power, its subsequent decline in the 18th century, and the changing relationship between the northern Netherlands and the south, which was to develop into modern Belgium. 32 color plates.
Synopsis
"Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster forms the inaugural volume of a new series, the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe, and offers a comprehensive, integrated account of the northern part of the Netherlands over almost 350 years...The Dutch Republic represents the fruit of 12 years of research, contemplation and writing, and brims over with interesting detail."--The New York Times Book Review
"Israel performs the great service of charting a path through this literature and presents a coherent and comprehensive picture of the Dutch Republic.... Comprehensive in scope and yet so clearly and carefully written that it could serve as a textbook for graduate history courses. Because it is so thoroughly researched and up-to-date, it is also the kind of indispensable handbook that deserves a place on every early modernist's bookshelf."--American Historical Review
About the Author
Jonathan Israel is Professor of Dutch Histories and Institutions at the University of London.
Table of Contents
Preface
Lists of maps, tables, and abbreviations
Part 1: The Making of the Republic, 1477-1588
1. Introduction
2. On the Threshold of a Modern era
3. Humanism and the Origins of the Reformation, 1470-1520
4. Territorial Consolidation, 1516-1559
5. The Early Dutch Reformation, 1519-1565
6. Society Before the Revolt
7. The Breakdown of the Habsburg Regime, 1549-1566
8. Repression Under Alva, 1567-1572
9. The Revolt Begins
10. The Revolt and the Emergence of a New State
Part 2: The Early Golden Age, 1588-1647
11. Consolidation of the Republic, 1588-1590
12. The Republic becomes a Great Power
13. The Institutions of the Republic
14. The Commencement of Dutch World Trade Primacy
15. Society after the Revolt
16. Protestantization, Catholicization, Confessionalization
17. The Separation of Identities: the Twelve Years Truce
18. Crisis Within the Dutch Body Politic, 1607-1616
19. The fall of the Oldenbarnevelt Regime, 1616-1618
20. The Calvinist Revolution of the Counter-Remonstrants, 1618-1621
21. The Republic Under Siege, 1621-1628
22. The Republic in Triumph, 1629-1647
23. Art and Architecture, 1509-1648
24. Intellectual Life, 1572-1650
Part III: The Later Golden Age, 1647-1702
25. The Stadholderate of William II, 1647-1650
26. Society
27. Confessionalization, 1647-1702
28. Freedom and Order
29. The Republic at its Zenith I: the 1650s
30. The Republic at its Zenith II:1659-1672
31. 1672: Year of Disaster
32. The Stadholderate of William III, 1672-1702
33. Art and Architecture, 1645-1702
34. Intellectual Life, 1650-1700
35. The Colonial Empire
Part IV: The Age of Decline, 1702-1806
36. The Republic of the Regents, 1702-1747
37. Society
38. The Churches
39. The Enlightenment
40. The Second Orangist Revolution, 1747-1751
41. The Faltering Republic and the New Dynamism in the `South'
42. The Patriot Revolution, 1780-1787
43. The Fall of the Republic
44. Denouement
Bibliography
Index