Networks, Regions and Nations

Networks, Regions and Nations
Title Networks, Regions and Nations PDF eBook
Author Robert Stein
Publisher BRILL
Pages 304
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 9004180249

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This volume offers a fascinating insight into the continuities and discontinuities in the formation of identities in the Low Countries and its neighbouring countries. It is an important contribution to the ongoing debates about national and other identities.

The Legacy of Dutch Brazil

The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
Title The Legacy of Dutch Brazil PDF eBook
Author Michiel van Groesen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 375
Release 2014-06-09
Genre History
ISBN 1139993178

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This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the history of Latin America, which leads to a view of Dutch Brazil as self-contained and historically isolated. The Legacy of Dutch Brazil shows that repercussions of the Dutch infiltration in the Southern Hemisphere resonated across the Atlantic Basin and remained long after the fall of the colony. By examining its regional, national, and cosmopolitan legacies, thirteen authors trace the memories and mythologies of Dutch Brazil from the colonial period up until the present day and engage in broader debates on geopolitical and cultural changes at the crossroads of Atlantic and Latin American studies.

City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1600

City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1600
Title City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1600 PDF eBook
Author Bruno Blondé
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 323
Release 2018-10-04
Genre History
ISBN 1108474683

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A comprehensive dissection of the making of urban society in the Low Countries during the middle ages and the sixteenth century.

State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age

State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
Title State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age PDF eBook
Author Arthur der Weduwen
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 433
Release 2023-12-08
Genre History
ISBN 0198926626

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State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands. Der Weduwen provides an in-depth study of early modern state communication: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with political opponents. These communication strategies, including proclamations, the use of town criers, and the printing and affixing of hundreds of thousands of edicts, underpinned the political stability of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Based on systematic research in thirty-two Dutch archives, this book demonstrates for the first time how the wealthiest, most literate, and most politically participatory state of early modern Europe was shaped by the communication of political information. It makes a decisive case for the importance of communication to the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the extent to which early modern authorities relied on the active consent of their subjects to legitimise their government.

Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt

Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt
Title Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt PDF eBook
Author Johannes Mueller
Publisher BRILL
Pages 253
Release 2016-04-08
Genre History
ISBN 9004315918

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The Dutch Revolt (ca. 1572-1648) led to the displacement of tens of thousands of people. In Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt, Johannes Müller shows how migrants and their descendants in the Dutch Republic, England and Germany cultivated their Netherlandish heritage for more than 200 years. Memories of war and persecution shaped new religious and political identities that combined images of suffering and heroism and served as foundational narratives of newcomers. Exposing the underlying narrative structures of early modern exile memories, this volume shows how stories about the Dutch Revolt allowed migrants to participate in their host societies rather than producing a closed and exclusive diaspora. While narratives of religious persecution attracted non-migrants as well, exile networks were able to connect newcomers and established residents.

A Concise History of the Netherlands

A Concise History of the Netherlands
Title A Concise History of the Netherlands PDF eBook
Author James C. Kennedy
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 505
Release 2017-07-13
Genre History
ISBN 0521875889

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This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.

From Ghent to Aix

From Ghent to Aix
Title From Ghent to Aix PDF eBook
Author Paul Arblaster
Publisher BRILL
Pages 390
Release 2014-06-10
Genre History
ISBN 900427684X

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Sixteenth-century Brussels and Antwerp in combination formed the northern linchpin of an international communication network that covered Western and Central Europe. In the seventeenth century both cities saw the rise of newspapers that compare revealingly with those produced in Germany, the Dutch Republic, England and France. In From Ghent to Aix, Paul Arblaster examines the services that carried the news, the types of news publicized, and the relationship of these newspapers to Baroque Europe’s other methods of public communication, from drums and trumpets, ceremonies and sermons, to almanacs, pamphlets, pasquinades and newsletters. The merchant’s need for information and the government’s desire to influence opinion together opened up a space in which a new social force would take root: the media.