The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 / Edition 1

by Jonathan Israel

Overview

"Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster forms the inaugural volume of a new series, the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe, and offers a comprehensive, integrated account of the northern part of the Netherlands over almost 350 years...The Dutch Republic represents the fruit of 12 years of research, contemplation and writing, and brims over with interesting detail."--The New York Times Book Review

"Israel performs the great service of charting a path through this literature and presents a coherent and comprehensive picture of the Dutch Republic.... Comprehensive in scope and yet so clearly and carefully written that it could serve as a textbook for graduate history courses. Because it is so thoroughly researched and up-to-date, it is also the kind of indispensable handbook that deserves a place on every early modernist's bookshelf."--American Historical Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198207344
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	09/03/1998
Series:	Oxford History of Early Modern Europe Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	1280
Sales rank:	322,059
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 2.30(d)
Lexile:	1720L (what's this?)

About the Author

Jonathan Israel is Professor of Dutch Histories and Institutions at the University of London.

Table of Contents

Preface
Lists of maps, tables, and abbreviations
Part 1: The Making of the Republic, 1477-1588
1. Introduction
2. On the Threshold of a Modern era
3. Humanism and the Origins of the Reformation, 1470-1520
4. Territorial Consolidation, 1516-1559
5. The Early Dutch Reformation, 1519-1565
6. Society Before the Revolt
7. The Breakdown of the Habsburg Regime, 1549-1566
8. Repression Under Alva, 1567-1572
9. The Revolt Begins
10. The Revolt and the Emergence of a New State
Part 2: The Early Golden Age, 1588-1647
11. Consolidation of the Republic, 1588-1590
12. The Republic becomes a Great Power
13. The Institutions of the Republic
14. The Commencement of Dutch World Trade Primacy
15. Society after the Revolt
16. Protestantization, Catholicization, Confessionalization
17. The Separation of Identities: the Twelve Years Truce
18. Crisis Within the Dutch Body Politic, 1607-1616
19. The fall of the Oldenbarnevelt Regime, 1616-1618
20. The Calvinist Revolution of the Counter-Remonstrants, 1618-1621
21. The Republic Under Siege, 1621-1628
22. The Republic in Triumph, 1629-1647
23. Art and Architecture, 1509-1648
24. Intellectual Life, 1572-1650
Part III: The Later Golden Age, 1647-1702
25. The Stadholderate of William II, 1647-1650
26. Society
27. Confessionalization, 1647-1702
28. Freedom and Order
29. The Republic at its Zenith I: the 1650s
30. The Republic at its Zenith II:1659-1672
31. 1672: Year of Disaster
32. The Stadholderate of William III, 1672-1702
33. Art and Architecture, 1645-1702
34. Intellectual Life, 1650-1700
35. The Colonial Empire
Part IV: The Age of Decline, 1702-1806
36. The Republic of the Regents, 1702-1747
37. Society
38. The Churches
39. The Enlightenment
40. The Second Orangist Revolution, 1747-1751
41. The Faltering Republic and the New Dynamism in the 'South'
42. The Patriot Revolution, 1780-1787
43. The Fall of the Republic
44. Denouement
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster... offers a comprehensive, integrated account of the northern part of the Netherlands over almost 350 years...[it] represents the fruit of 12 years of research, contemplation and writing, and brims over with interesting detail."--The New York Times Book Review

"Those with a serious interest in the history of the Netherlands will not only have to read this book, they will enjoy it."--Sixteenth Century Journal

"Israel performs the great service of charting a path through this literature and presents a coherent and comprehensive picture of the Dutch Republic...is comprehensive in scope and yet so clearly and carefully written that it could serve as a textbook for graduate history courses. Because it is so thoroughly researched and up-to-date, it is also the kind of indispensable handbook that deserves a place on every early modernist's bookshelf."--American Historical Review

"The definitive work on the Low Countries for this spectacular but complex period of history....A major contribution to the field and a superb production; the bibliography, plates, and maps alone are worth the price."--CHOICE

"[T]he book is much more than a description of political evolution. It is a comprehensive and coherent treatment of nearly every aspect of early modern Ducth life....[T]he book's coherent, smooth narratives and clear analyses portray a richly complex setting. The text is well written, and the book's plates, charts, maps, bibliography, and price make it attractive to general and scholarly audiences alike."--The Historian

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