What are the most salient and sparking facts about the Netherlands? This updated edition of Discovering the Dutch tackles the heart of the question of Dutch identity through a number of essential themes that span the culture, history and society of the Netherlands. Running the gamut from the Randstad to the Dutch Golden Age, from William of Orange to Anne Frank, this volume uses a series of vignettes written by academic experts in their fields to address historical and contemporary topics suc...

The Jewish Orphanage in Leiden was the last one of eight such care homes to open its doors in the Netherlands before the Second World War. After spending almost 39 years in an old and utterly inadequate building in Leiden's city centre, the inauguration in 1929 of a brand-new building, shown on the front cover, was the start of a remarkably productive and prosperous period.

The building still stands there, proudly but sadly, to this day: the relatively happy period lasted less than fourteen y...

The historical atlas of the Baster, Nama and Griqua states describes the history of the political entities that the descendants of European settlers and the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa established in the 19th century. Through maps, photos, drawings, tables and text their place in African history is visualized. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established the Cape Colony which started the advance of European colonialism in Southern Africa. In the subsequent decades and centuries many of the...