Boundaries and their meanings in the history of the Netherlands

Introduction: "Boundaries : real and imagined" / Laura Cruz and Hubert P. van Tuyll -- pt. 1. The golden age -- Divided loyalties : states-Brabant as a border country / C.O. van der Meij -- Geography unbound : boundaries and the exotic world in the early Enlightenment / Benjamin Schmidt --...

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Published in:Society for Netherlandic History
Contributors: Kaplan, Benjamin J. 1960- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2009
In: Society for Netherlandic History (2)
Reviews:[Rezension von: Kaplan, Benjamin, Boundaries and Their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands...] (2012) (Janssen, Geert H.)
Series/Journal:Studies in Central European histories 48
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Netherlands / Boundary / History 1500-2000
Further subjects:B Boundaries Political aspects History Netherlands
B Netherlands Historical geography
B Netherlands Historiography
B Collection of essays
B Boundaries Social aspects History Netherlands
B Netherlands Boundaries History
B Netherlands Colonies History
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Summary:Introduction: "Boundaries : real and imagined" / Laura Cruz and Hubert P. van Tuyll -- pt. 1. The golden age -- Divided loyalties : states-Brabant as a border country / C.O. van der Meij -- Geography unbound : boundaries and the exotic world in the early Enlightenment / Benjamin Schmidt -- Deciphering the Dutch in Deshima / Mia M. Mochizuki -- The transnational dispersal of the Walloon military aristocracy in the era of the Dutch revolt : the example of the Tserclaes of Tilly / John Theibault -- The geographic extent of the Dutch book trade in the 17th century : an old question revisited / Laura Cruz -- Pragmatic agents of empire : Dutch intercultural mediators among the Mohawks in seventeenth-century New Netherland / Mark Meuwese -- pt. 2. The modern age -- Neutral borders, neutral waters, neutral skies : protecting the territorial neutrality of the Netherlands in the Great War, 1914-1918 / Maartje M. Abbenhuis -- Last chance : Belgium at Versailles / Hubert P. van Tuyll -- The Dutch border areas, 1933-1945 : inducement for incidents or object of structural historiographical neglect? / Bob de Graaff -- "Our national community" : the dominance of organic thinking in the post-war Netherlands / Martin Bossenbroek -- Dwinegeri-multiculturalism and the colonial past (or: The cultural borders of being Dutch, part 1) / Susan Legene
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004176373