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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Geoffrey Parker |
ISBN: | 0141391324 9780141391328 |
OCLC Number: | 59410084 |
Notes: | Previous edition: 1985. |
Description: | 334 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Part 1 Prelude: the Netherlands in 1549; the seeds of discontent (1549-59); the erosion of royal power (1559-64); the collapse of royal power (March 1564-October 1565). Part 2 The fFirst revolt (1565-8): the crisis; Spain, 1566 - the time of decisions; the failure of the first revolt; the sending of the duke of Alva; the duke of Alva's new order. Part 3 The second revolt (1569-76): the gathering storm; 1572; the prince of Orange's new order; the failure of repression (1573-6). Part 4 The third revolt (1576-81): revolution; Orange's triumph; the split. Part 5 Independence and survival (1581-9): the failure of leadership in the Republic; the Spanish reconquest; war or peace?. Part 6 Consolidation and settlement: the war to 1609; the Dutch Republic as a great power; the survival of the Spanish Netherlands; postscript - the Netherlands divided. |
Series Title: | Classic history. |
Responsibility: | Geoffrey Parker. |
Abstract:
Based on Spanish and Dutch documents from various European collections, this text takes into account religions and economic, as well as political, factors, demonstrating the links that tied the fate of the Netherlands to that of Spain, in a age when "particularism was more potent that patriotism".
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