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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...
De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn (1700-1794)
Hardcover || Joost Welten || Sterck & De Vreese || met inkijkexemplaar
Het stift van Thorn is in de achttiende eeuw the place to
be voor de hoogadellijke dochters van de Europese rijksvorsten
en -graven. Ze worden hier klaargestoomd voor
een huwelijk met een man van stand, leren zich uitdrukken
in het Frans, krijgen zanglessen en organiseren
dansfeesten. Hun japonnen naar de laatste mode uit Parijs
zijn exclusief en de exquise gerechten eten ze met zilveren
bestek. In de glazen kooi waarin ze leven dienen ze voortdurend
het bij hun stand passende gedrag te verto...
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...