The Revolt of the Netherlands, 1555-1609

History

GEYL, Pieter

Europe

Barnes & Noble Imports

Did you ever wonder why Europe's the way it is? This is one pivotal episode. The fall of Burgundy, the rise of Spain, and the Netherlands caught in between the Major Powers in the years leading up to the Thirty Years War.

Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609

Littlefield, Adams

Yale Books edition. Different cover same content.Front cover shows moderate wear and back cover has a coffee stain. All pages are clean with no tears or dog ears.

Napoleon For And Against

Penguin Uk

Historical knowledge, this noted Dutch historian declares, should be a result of free investigation and criticism. Since it deals with facts, not imagination, it cannot be cast into a predetermined mold to fit a unified pattern of arbitrary principles. "The most we can hope for," he states, "is a partial rendering, an approximation, of the real truth about the past." In this succinct analysis of the philosophy and method of history, Professor Geyl examines the prevailing concepts of history and the new "awareness of distance" from the past that was lacking in earlier historians. History, he points out, provides an elucidation of the present and its problems by showing them in perspective. This important study of the historical point of view is based on the author's Terry Lecture at Yale.

Use and Abuse of History

World

Shoe String Pr Inc

Orange and Stuart, 1641-72;

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Historical knowledge, this noted Dutch historian declares, should be a result of free investigation and criticism.  Since it deals with facts, not imagination, it cannot be cast into a predetermined mold to fit a unified pattern of arbitrary principles.  “The most we can hope for,” he states, “is a partial rendering, an approximation, of the real truth about the past.”  In this succinct analysis of the philosophy and method of history, Professor Geyl examines the prevailing concepts of history and the new “awareness of distance” from the past that was lacking in earlier historians.  History, he points out, provides an elucidation of the present and its problems by showing them in perspective.  This important study of the historical point of view is based on the author’s Terry Lectures at Yale. 

Use and Abuse of History (The Terry Lectures Series)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Yale University Press

<p>"The Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609" is the first volume in authors magnificent - but sadly incomplete - history of the Dutch speaking peoples. In this superb panorama of politics and war, Geyl tells the epic story of the Netherlands heroic struggle against the might of Spain, and of the rise and the establishment of the Dutch Republic. As such it remains the definite account of one of the central episodes in early modern European history. But it also addresses issues which remain alive and important today: the relation between religious beliefs and political action, the complex questions of national identity, and the problems be setting a small country struggling to survive in a great power world. Above all, it is suffused by the author's abiding believe in the vitality of European civilization.</p>

The Revolt of the Netherlands (Cassell History)

Cassell

Revolt of the Netherlands

Ernest Benn

Encounters in History

Americas

Peter Smith Pub Inc

The Revolt of the Netherlands (1555-1609) (Classic Reprint)

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