"This remarkable book is the first single-volume history available in English of the region from the Roman times to the present ... It successfully integrates recent scholarship [and] is well written throughout ... generously supplied with well-chosen maps, and illustrations ... it will appeal to general readers as well as scholars interested in this important region." * History: Review of New Books "... a welcome addition to the historical literature on Belgium and the Netherlands, for ... thereis no good one-volume history of the Low Countries available ... The chapters are written by some of the foremost specialists in their fields, and provide excellent summaries of or present views of the periods in question." * Dutch Crossing "The editors ... should be congratulated for maintaining a very high degree of stylistic consistency ... I very much welcome an English-language translation of this important book." * Dietrich Orlow, Boston University "... eminently readable and ... solidly based in contemporary scholarship." * James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota
Translator's Note
Preface
Chapter 1. A Long Beginning: The Low
Countries Through the Tenth Century
L. J. R. Mills
Chapter 2. Counts, Cities, and Clerics:
The Eleventh, Twelth, and Thirteenth Centuries
L. J. R. Mills
Chapter 3. The Formation of a Political
Union, 1300-1588
W. P. Blockmans
Chapter 4. The Dutch Republic,
1588-1780
A. T. van Deursen
Chapter 5. The Spanish and Austrian
Netherlands, 1579-1780
P. Janssens
Chapter 6. Revolution in the North and
South, 1780-1830
J. Roegiers and N . C. F. van Sas
Chapter 7. Belgium since 1830
E. Lamberts
Chapter 8. The Netherlands since 1830
J. C. H. Blom
Epilogue: Unity and Diversity in the Low
Countries
J. C. H. Blom and E. Lamberts
Recommended Literature
Index
Contributors
J. C. H. Blom is director of the Dutch State Institute for War Documentation , Amsterdam.
“This remarkable book is the first single-volume history available in English of the region from the Roman times to the present … It successfully integrates recent scholarship [and] is well written throughout … generously supplied with well-chosen maps, and illustrations … it will appeal to general readers as well as scholars interested in this important region.” • History: Review of New Books “… a welcome addition to the historical literature on Belgium and the Netherlands, for … there is no good one-volume history of the Low Countries available … The chapters are written by some of the foremost specialists in their fields, and provide excellent summaries of our present views of the periods in question.” • Dutch Crossing “The editors … should be congratulated for maintaining a very high degree of stylistic consistency … I very much welcome an English-language translation of this important book.” • Dietrich Orlow, Boston University “… eminently readable and … solidly based in contemporary scholarship.” • James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota
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