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Language: en
Pages: 505
Pages: 505
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.
Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Vanderheide Publishing Company
The development of the Netherlands over the centuries has been a remarkable one. Situated at "the end of Europe," between land and water, its people have, for m
Language: en
Pages: 152
Pages: 152
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Routledge
In 1598 a fleet of five East India ships from the Nether-lands landed on the uninhabited island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, which they claimed as a Dutch
Language: en
Pages: 215
Pages: 215
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-25 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Books offering an overview of Dutch history are few and far between in the English-speaking world. Friso Wielenga's A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixte
Language: en
Pages: 505
Pages: 505
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social policies such as ca