Download or read book The Past and the Future of Belgium written by Albert Joseph Carnoy and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Past and the Future of Belgium Classic Reprint written by Albert J. Carnoy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Past and the Future of Belgium Belgium has been placed in special prominence by her situation at the center of the greatest fight in history and by her noble attitude during a long period of indescribable sufferings. Many a name of her cities and villages has been associated for ever with deeds of glory or shame. Many a name of her sons has been added to the list of heroes who have suffered for ideals dear to mankind. The German intrigues as well as the discussions at the Peace Conference have acquainted the whole world with special aspects of Belgian nationality and Belgian politics. But all this has been very fragmentary information, and numerous are the persons in America who have the most friendly interest for Belgium but know very little of that country, her aspects, her inhabitants, the essential facts of her history, the main features of her national character. Particulars as to the amount of destruction wrought by the Germans and about the part played by Belgium in the war are also very desirable; but above all, in connection with the restoration of the country and with its future, it will be helpful to provide reliable and clear information to all those who may come in contact with a nation that has now indelible bonds of friendship with the United States. Both countries will remain associated during the period of re construction and it is desirable that they know one another. This is the idea which has inspired the present booklet which in a condensed form treats of Belgium, her glorious past, her ideals, her part in the war, her problems in the near future, her possibilities, her place in the new world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Restoration of Belgium and Her Future Classic Reprint written by Albert Joseph Carnoy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Restoration of Belgium and Her Future The graceful city halls, the elegant churches inherited from a past of freedom and mysticism, together with the sumptuous and sometimes not uninteresting buildings erected everywhere in the recent period of prosperity, all had contributed to crowd on a very small area much beauty and much wealth, so that an enemy seized with a blindfury could in a few days inflict the most irreparable loss on that historical ground where democracy was born in Europe. Although the armistice saved much that probably would have been doomed - it is reported that infernal machines had been placed in the basement of the celebrated Palace of Justice of Brussels - the destruction wrought by the ruthless enemy has been enormous. It has been exerted upon many things that are not visible to a superficial observer, but it has struck Belgian prosperity to its very heart by destroying completely her industries. The losses are due to a small extent only to destruction unavoidable in case of war, such as results from bombardment, fighting in villages, or the blowing up of bridges. The greatest damage has been perpetrated in defiance of international law. It comprises the willful and wanton burning of Louvain, Termonde, Dinant, and many villages, the plun dering of innumerable houses, the cutting of the forests of Flanders and Campine and many woods in the Ardennes, and the requisition of all kinds of commodities, notably the wool of the mattresses, copper in all its forms from kettles to lighting fixtures, great quantities of domestic linen, of leather, and of clothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Past and the Future of Belgium written by Albert J Carnoy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the aftermath of World War I, The Past and Future of Belgium offers a perceptive analysis of the political, economic, and cultural challenges facing this pivotal European nation. Drawing on his expertise as a historian and sociologist, Albert J. Carnoy explores the complex forces that have shaped Belgium's past and present, and offers insightful predictions for its future. A must-read for anyone interested in the history and politics of Europe. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Past and the Future of Belgium Scholar s Choice Edition written by Albert J. Carnoy and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Case of Belgium Classic Reprint written by James M. Beck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Case of Belgium This question was communicated by Sir Edward Grey to the Belgian Government, with the addition that he (sir Edward Grey) asked that the Belgian Government will maintain to the utmost of her power her neutrality which I desire, and expect other Powers to uphold and observe. Pursuant to these instructions, the English Ambassador to Paris, on the night of July 31, 1914, called upon Viviani, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and on the same night received a reply which is reported by Sir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey, as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Past and the Future of Belgium written by Albert Joseph Carnoy and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Belgium Past and Present written by A. R. Hope Moncrieff and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Belgium Past and Present: The Cockpit of Europe This book does not pretend to being a formal history of the Flemish and Walloon provinces up to their union as an independent kingdom; nor does it deal with Belgium exclusively. Its aim is, with pen and pencil, to illustrate the stirring past of that troubled borderland on which neighbour-nations have so often fought their quarrels, till in our own day it made an arena for the main stress of the greatest war ever waged on earth. Those who have gone through that titanic struggle, or followed it with anxious eyes, may willingly find here renewed for them the old fame of names now to us become at once sadly and proudly familiar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Belgium and the Belgians Classic Reprint written by Cyril Scudamore and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Belgium and the Belgians The object of the present work is not that of a guide-book, but rather to convey that information respecting Belgium and its people which we look for in vain in the excellent topographical works of Baedeker, Murray, Grant Allen, Ward & Lock, Lindley, and Jean d'Ardenne. In the chapter on "The Holiday Ground of Belgium" the writer has endeavoured to describe faithfully a tour made by him in the summer of 1899 through the Liege district and the Ardennes. He does not profess to have discovered anything new or strange; but as he has carefully avoided describing any place which he has not recently visited, he believes that his narrative may possibly be of use to those who may wish to undertake a similar excursion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book PAST AND THE FUTURE OF BELGIUM written by ALBERT J. CARNOY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Belgium the Making of a Nation Classic Reprint written by Herman Vander Linden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Belgium, the Making of a Nation To say the truth, it is by no means easy to free oneself from the tyrannous obsession of the present, to escape from the atmosphere of fever or exaltation in which we live, and which impels us to regard Belgium as the pivot of European evolution. No land, it is true, possesses a more international history a fact which has been brought out with wonderful skill by Henri Pirenne - and it is not paradoxical to assert that one of the characteristics of Belgian nationality is internationalism.' While bearing these results in mind as scientifically true, I have devoted myself to the task of finding out the ruling factors of our internal history, and selecting by preference as the landmarks of different periods, not the changes which, resulting in general from European conflicts, have affected the reigning houses, but the distinctive phenomena of social life. In common with the other States of the West, Belgium only achieved political consistency in the fifteenth century, but her national character was formed during the course of the Middle Ages, and if I have not laid more stress upon that period it is because its history is still enveloped in the mists of legends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Belgium the Land of Art Its History Legends Industry and Modern Expansion Classic Reprint written by William Elliot Griffis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Belgium the Land of Art, Its History, Legends, Industry, and Modern Expansion At some future time I hope to add a volume onmy personal adventures, experiences, observations, and studies, entitled The American in Belgium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Belgian Democracy written by Henri Pirenne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Belgian Democracy: Its Early History This little book first saw the light in 1910. Since that date, no work has appeared which has required me to reconsider the general ideas on which it is based. Nevertheless, this English translation includes a certain number of detailed corrections which have here and there improved the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Belgium Classic Reprint written by Joseph E. Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Belgium Yet even if German kultur in the end sweep wholly into ruin the long accumulated treasures of Belgian architecture, sculpture, and painting if Bruges, which to-day stands still intact, shall to-morrow be reckoned with Dinant and Louvain - yet it would still be worth while to set before a few more people this record of vanished splen dour, that they may better appreciate what the world has lost through lust of brutal ambition, and better be on guard in the future to protect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Belgium and the Scrap of Paper Classic Reprint written by Henry Noel Brailsford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Belgium and "the Scrap of Paper" There are two ways of regarding such a crime as the German invasion of Belgium. The natural impulse of every normal man, as he realised, first that a treaty had been broken, and then that an unprovoked invasion had been aggravated by more than the common ruthlessness of war, was one of honest anger. There was every justification for that anger. It is an axiom of the law of nations, older by far than the Hague Convention, that the territory of neutrals is inviolable, and in this case Belgium was no ordinary neutral. Perpetual neutrality had been imposed upon her by the Powers, and Prussia signed the treaty which established it. Belgium was the vestal virgin of Europe. Her security was a claim on the honour of her neighbours, and the Power which threatens it, is guilty of something worse. Than an attack on Bel gium. It has weakened the fabric of faith and honesty among peoples, substituted force for law in their intercourse, and delayed the march of civilisation. These are abstract words; it is. A heavier count against Germany that she has rendered hundreds of thousands of Belgians homeless, and made widows and orphans among a people which had done her no wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Educational Reconstruction in Belgium Classic Reprint written by Walter A. Montgomery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Educational Reconstruction in Belgium Our financial situation will improve by degrees. This year we shall have a budget which will approximately balance. The next year, when we are in a. Position to estimate the possible amount of indemnity we are to receive, we shall take steps to reduce the national debt. Taxation will have to be well distributed in order that there may be no unfair burdens. Justice is neces sary, certainly, but it is imperative to meet our financial requirements. Every body is spending too much. That must st0p. All ranks of society must economize. The laborer is ready to work, if only he can be assured that his efforts have other results than the mere enrichment of his employers. The interest of the country lies in increased production. It is a very real necessity. War has impeded civilization. We have to make up lost time. Economy is necessary. Always economy. Our opportunity is at hand. The past lays upon us responsibility, and we have no right to compromise the future of our country. Economic and material rehabilitation have gone hand in hand with the intellectual and the educational. According to the reports of the anglo-belgian Union, Belgian cooperation, under the leader ship of the noted author, Emile Cammaerts, has organized popular lectures throughout Belgium for the purpose of spreading knowledge of modern countries. All are illustrated, and treat of subjects of vital bearing on the future well-being of Belgium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Back From Belgium written by Jean Baptiste De Ville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Back From Belgium: A Secret History of Three Years Within the German Lines It is a long step back to those first mad days of the Great War. Treaties became but scraps of paper and horror followed horror in such rapidity that the neutral world stood aghast. What must the first days have meant to those with loved ones caught in the whirlpool of the Kaiser's wrath! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
