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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


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