The Dutch Republic - Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806

The `Dutch Golden Age', the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in the history of the world. In this book, Jonathan Israel gives the definitive account of the emergence of the United Provinces as a great power, and explains the subsequent decline in the eighteenth century. He places the thought, politics, religion, and social developments of the Golden Age in their broad context, and examines the changing relationship between the northern Netherlands and the south, which was to develop into modern Belgium.One of the principal aims of the book is to counter the oversimplification which characterizes so much history writing today, and to provide a new type of integrated history which draws the different dimensions of the discipline firmly together in strictly non-technical language. The result is a comprehensive and lucid account as useful to the reader primarily interested in artistic and cultural history as to the student who needs a survey of the Republic's institutions, class structure, and economic development. At the same time it will provide an invaluable aid to scholars interested in new research and new interpretations.

Product details

• Authors: Israel, Jonathan Israel, Jonathan (Professor of Dutch History and Institutions Israel, Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan I. Israel, Israel Jonathan
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.1998
• EAN: 9780198207344
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820734-4
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 52 mm
• Series: Oxford History of Early Modern Europe; Oxford History of Early Modern Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; Cultural Studies, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Netherlands, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800