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Sovereignty as Inviolability
vondel's Theatrical Explorations in the Dutch Republic
2017 || Paperback || Frans-Willem Korsten || Verloren b.v., uitgeverij
Sovereignty is a key issue in the baroque, and especially in the Dutch Republic with its incredibly complicated political organisation. Consequently, in and through Joost van den Vondel's theatre plays, sovereignty was explored. Vondel sensed a fundamental problem in the construction of Europes politico-cultural 'house'. The questions he asked with respect to that construction concerned the relation between theology and politics, also in terms of gender and culture. Since these questions co...
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Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
2022 || Paperback || Silvia Mostaccio e.a. || Leuven University Press
Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member ...
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Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources The Travels of Pieter Albert Bik
writings from the Dutch Colonial World of the Early Nineteenth Century
2017 || Paperback || Mikko Toivanen || Leiden University Press
The unpublished writings of a Dutch colonial official, Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) are studied and contextualized in this book. The remarkable autobiographical manuscript of Bik, which is here presented in English translation with annotations, provides a unique glimpse of the wide horizons of the world of Dutch colonialism, tracing his many journeys in Europe, the Dutch East Indies and Japan as well as across the oceans in the first half of the nineteenth century.
In this work, Mikko Toivan...
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The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708
Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Paperback || Henk van Nierop || Amsterdam University Press
This is the first book-length biography of Romeyn de Hooghe, the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The study narrates how his reputation became badly tarnished when he was accused of pornography, fraud, larceny, and atheism.
Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stad...
The Dutch Cemetrey in Nagasaki (1654-1870)Echo of the Past
Echo of the Past
Paperback || Titia van der Eb-Brongersma || Hans Meijeraan
The Dutch Cemetery in Nagasaki is the oldest, still existing, graveyard for foreigners from the West in Japan. It reflects the many important events in the shared history of The Netherlands and Japan, especially with regard to Nagasaki.
The small, intimate cemetery, enclosed by a red brick wall, is located in the foothills of Mount Inasa on the grounds of the Buddhist temple Goshinji.
During the 17th, 18th, and 19th century hundreds of VOC servants, mostly sailors on board ships in port, but...
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The Colonization of Freed African Americans in Suriname
Archival Sources relating to the U.S.-Dutch Negotiations, 1860-1866
2019 || Paperback || Michael J. Douma || Leiden University Press
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln’s administration engaged in protracted negotiations with representatives of the Netherlands to aid in the voluntarily colonization of free African Americans to Suriname. Scores of diplomatic letters in Dutch, English, and French, dating to the period 1862 to 1866 attest to the very real possibility that such a migration stream could have become a reality. They also indicate reasons why this scheme failed: it was bogged down by differe...