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The Dutch Republic
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Table of Contents

Preface
Lists of maps, tables, and abbreviations
Part 1: The Making of the Republic, 1477-1588
1: Introduction
2: On the Threshold of a Modern era
3: Humanism and the Origins of the Reformation, 1470-1520
4: Territorial Consolidation, 1516-1559
5: The Early Dutch Reformation, 1519-1565
6: Society Before the Revolt
7: The Breakdown of the Habsburg Regime, 1549-1566
8: Repression Under Alva, 1567-1572
9: The Revolt Begins
10: The Revolt and the Emergence of a New State
Part 2: The Early Golden Age, 1588-1647
11: Consolidation of the Republic, 1588-1590
12: The Republic becomes a Great Power
13: The Institutions of the Republic
14: The Commencement of Dutch World Trade Primacy
15: Society after the Revolt
16: Protestantization, Catholicization, Confessionalization
17: The Separation of Identities: the Twelve Years Truce
18: Crisis Within the Dutch Body Politic, 1607-1616
19: The fall of the Oldenbarnevelt Regime, 1616-1618
20: The Calvinist Revolution of the Counter-Remonstrants, 1618-1621
21: The Republic Under Siege, 1621-1628
22: The Republic in Triumph, 1629-1647
23: Art and Architecture, 1509-1648
24: Intellectual Life, 1572-1650
Part III: The Later Golden Age, 1647-1702
25: The Stadholderate of William II, 1647-1650
26: Society
27: Confessionalization, 1647-1702
28: Freedom and Order
29: The Republic at its Zenith I: the 1650s
30: The Republic at its Zenith II:1659-1672
31: 1672: Year of Disaster
32: The Stadholderate of William III, 1672-1702
33: Art and Architecture, 1645-1702
34: Intellectual Life, 1650-1700
35: The Colonial Empire
Part IV: The Age of Decline, 1702-1806
36: The Republic of the Regents, 1702-1747
37: Society
38: The Churches
39: The Enlightenment
40: The Second Orangist Revolution, 1747-1751
41: The Faltering Republic and the New Dynamism in the `South'
42: The Patriot Revolution, 1780-1787
43: The Fall of the Republic
44: Denouement
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jonathan Israel is Professor of Dutch History and Institutions at the University of London. He is the author of many well-respected books in European and particularly Dutch history.

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This is a magnificent doorstop of a book ... As an account of what made possible one of the most dazzling "Golden Ages" in European history it is unlikely to be bettered. Sunday Telegraph Israel has produced a classic ... Any scholar would be delighted to write a book of such learning, vigour and confidence. Very few indeed have done so, and no other has matched Israel on his topic. THES

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