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Henk van Nierop
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…
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Bob Moore,Henk van Nierop
This volume presents essays which together offer a comparative history of the British and Dutch empires of the late-18th and early-19th-centuries. Topics range from the specific Anglo-Dutch relationship, to perceptions…
Comparing the British and Dutch experience of mass society in the twentieth century, this book considers five major areas: politics, welfare, media, leisure, and youth culture. Drawing on history, cultural…
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Ronni Baer,Professor Henk van Nierop
The Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century was home to one of the greatest flowerings of painting in the history of Western art. This book explores the early modern society…
Tells how Jan Jeroenszoon, through great personal courage and faith in the rule of law, managed to survive gruesome torture and vindicate himself by successfully arguing at trial that the…
Hsia and van Nierop have brought together an international group of leading historians to probe the history and myth of Dutch religious toleration. Their essays shed new light on the…
Hsia and van Nierop have brought together an international group of leading historians to probe the history and myth of Dutch religious toleration. This 2002 collection of outstanding essays sheds…
This study compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic, looking beyond the tales of persecution that have dominated traditional historiography, focusing on the realities of…
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Compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic. This volume explores Catholicism as a minority culture that resorted to unorthodox means, both to retain its own…
