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Book Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

Download or read book Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands written by V. Lunsford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-06-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading,exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Surprisingly, this story of Dutch freebooters and their depredations remains almost entirely untold until now. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality.

Book Stuart Succession Literature

Download or read book Stuart Succession Literature written by Paulina Kewes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions: to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefitting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.

Book Transnational Regions in Historical Perspective

Download or read book Transnational Regions in Historical Perspective written by Marten Boon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National competitiveness has become a misnomer, as competitiveness is increasingly understood as a regional phenomenon and regions are not confined to the boundaries of the nation state. This book focuses on the Port of Rotterdam and its hinterland – i.e. the Lower Rhine and the Ruhr area. A transnational perspective is imperative to understand the historical trajectories of the port, the hinterland and the region itself. This book brings geography and the transnational study of regions back into the historical discipline, linking places to larger geographical scales and to systems of production and consumption and the global chains in which they are organised. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in urban studies, urban planning, public policy, geography and political science.

Book Russia and the Low Countries

Download or read book Russia and the Low Countries written by Roger Tavernier and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bibliography contains everything that has been published in the West--except from Russia--about the relations between the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) and Russia--in every Western language"--P. [4] of cover.

Book Art in Reproduction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Verhoogt
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9053569138
  • Pages : 718 pages

Download or read book Art in Reproduction written by Robert Verhoogt and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating study examines the cultural meaning of artistic reproduction in a refreshingly new context through its consideration of how three artists managed the reproduction of their work.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nieuwsblad Voor Den Boekhandel

Download or read book Nieuwsblad Voor Den Boekhandel written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 1855-1927 are issued and bound: Handelingen van de algemeene vergadering.

Book The Public and Private in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

Download or read book The Public and Private in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age written by Arthur K. Wheelock (Jr.) and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays derives from a memorable interdisciplinary symposium. At issue were various fundamental questions about the nature of Dutch sixteenth-and seventeenth-century society that fall under three broad categories: civic culture, art, and religion. The fourteen papers presented in this volume offer a number of fascinating insights into these and other questions that, taken together, greatly enrich our perception and understanding of this rich and varied society.

Book Prentwerk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan de Jong
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Prentwerk written by Jan de Jong and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De meervoudige functies en betekenissen van zestiende- en zeventiende-eeuwse Nederlandse prenten.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jacob B  hme in Three Worlds

Download or read book Jacob B hme in Three Worlds written by Lucinda Martin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Böhme (1575–1624) has been recognized as one of the internationally most influential German authors of the Early Modern period. Even today, his writings continue to impact fields as diverse as literature, philosophy, religion and art. Yet Böhme and his reception remain understudied. As a lay author, his works were often suppressed and circulated underground. Borrowing Böhme’s idea of “three worlds” or planes of existence, this volume traces the transmission of his thought through three stations: from his first underground readers in Central and Eastern Europe, to the Netherlands, where most of his writings were first published, to Britain, where early translations made him a popular author for generations to come. Drawing on the work of both established and younger researchers from around the world, this volume charts new territory. It fills many lacunae and reveals a number of exciting discoveries, especially regarding the production and diffusion of manuscripts and previously overlooked sites of engagement. This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in the development of philosophical, religious, literary and artistic thought from the 17th century to the present day.

Book The Bader Collection

    Book Details:
  • Author : David De Witt
  • Publisher : School of Policy Studies Queen's University
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Bader Collection written by David De Witt and published by School of Policy Studies Queen's University. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bader Collection stands among the great private collections of its kind in the world. For the past 40 years Dr. Alfred Bader of Milwaukee has donated works to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at his Canadian alma mater, Queens University, where the entire Bader Collection will be housed . This extraordinary collection demonstrates a rich interplay of interests and insights, at the same time drawing back the curtain on the motivations and principles behind these remarkable acquisitions, whose history dates back to 1950. This scholarly publication presents 200 Dutch and Flemish Baroque paintings that form the collections focus. Exhaustively researched, the richly illustrated entries present each painting in detail. An introductory essay explores the life of this remarkable collector and the motivations that drive his pursuit of the art of the Age of Rembrandt with such passion and insight.

Book Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Download or read book Pieter Bruegel the Elder written by Pieter Bruegel and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) was a remarkable draftsman and designer of prints as well as a great painter. His independent drawings and designs for engravings and etchings, which were carried out by the leading printmakers of his day, have fascinated scholars and the general public alike since they were created. They have recently been the subject of research that has given rise to a reevaluation of the parameters of Bruegel's oeuvre. The new scholarship has been brought to bear in the texts of the present volume, which accompanies a major exhibition of 140 of Bruegel's prints and drawings to be shown at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, from May to August 2001 and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September to December 2001. An international group of experts discusses the new Bruegel who has emerged from recent studies, in essays on the artist's life, his contributions as a draftsman and as a printmaker, the survival of his art, and his relationship to the humanism of his day. They also illuminate his genius in entries on all the works in the exhibition. Every work is illustrated and rich comparative illustrations are included. Provenances an

Book Monatshefte Der Kunstwissenschaftlichen Literatur

Download or read book Monatshefte Der Kunstwissenschaftlichen Literatur written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pieter Saenredam  the Utrecht Work

Download or read book Pieter Saenredam the Utrecht Work written by Pieter Jansz Saenredam and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog

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  • Author : Warburg Institute. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1024 pages

Download or read book Catalog written by Warburg Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: