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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C.F. CLAY, MANAGER
LONDON: FETTER LANE, E.C.4
HISTORY OF HOLLAND
BY
GEORGE EDMUNDSON
D. LITT., F.R.G.S., F.R.HIST.S.
SOMETIME FELLOW OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD HON.
MEMBER OF THE DUTCH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, UTRECHT
FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE NETHERLANDS SOCIETY OF LITERATURE, LEYDEN
CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1922
TABLE OF CONTENTS
GENERAL PREFACE |
PROLOGUE |
I. The Bugundian Netherlands |
II. Habsburg Rule in the Netherlands |
III. The Prelude to the Revolt |
IV. The Revolt of the Netherlands |
V. William the Silent |
VI. The Beginnings of the Dutch Republic |
VII. The System of Government |
VIII. The Twelve Years' Truce |
IX. Maurice and Oldenbarneveldt |
X. From the end of the Twelve Years' Truce to the Peace of Munster, 1621-1648. The Stadtholder ate of Frederick Henry of Orange |
XI. The East and West India Companies. Commercial and Economic Expansion |
XII. Letters, Science and Art |
XIII. The Stadtholder ate of William II. The Great Assembly |
XIV. Rise of John de Witt. The First English War |
XV. The Administration of John de Witt, 1654-1665, from the Peace of Westminster to the Out-break of the Second English War |
XVI. The last years of De Witt's Administration, 1665-1672. The Second English War. The Triple Alliance. The French Invasion |
XVII. War with France and England. William III, Stadtholder. Murder of the brothers De Witt, 1672 |
XVIII. The Stadtholder ate of William III, 1672-1688 |
XIX. The King-Stadtholder , 1688-1702 |
XX. The War of the Spanish Succession and the Treaties of Utrecht, 1702-1715 |
XXI. The Stadtholder less Republic, 1715-1740 |
XXII. The Austrian Succession War and William IV, 1740-1751 |
XXIII. The Regency of Anne and of Brunswick, 1751-1766 |
XXIV. William V. First Period, 1766-1780 |
XXV. Stadtholder ate of William V (continued), 1780-1788. The English War. Patriot Movement. Civil War. Prussian Intervention. |
XXVI. The Orange Restoration. Downfall of the Republic, 1788-1795 |
XXVII. The Batavian Republic, 1795-1806 |
XXVIII. The Kingdom of Holland and the French Annexation, 1806-1814 |
XXIX. The Formation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1814-1815 |
XXX. The Kingdom of the Netherlands--Union of Holland and Belgium, 1815-1830 |
XXXI. The Belgian Revolution. The Separation of Holland and Belgium, 1830-1842 |
XXXII. William I abdicates. Reign of William II. Revision of the Constitution, 1842-1849 |
XXXIII. Reign of William III to the death of Thorbecke, 1849-1872 |
XXXIV. The later reign of William III, and the Regency of Queen Emma, 1872-1898 |
XXXV. The Reign of Queen Wilhelmina, 1898-1917 |
EPILOGUE |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
MAPS THE NETHERLANDS, about 1550 THE NETHERLANDS, after 1648 |
INDEX |