Table of Contents

The court of Albert and Isabella, 1598-1621; garrisons and empire; Spain's strongholds in north-west Germany, 1589-1659; a Spanish project to defeat the Dutch without fighting; the Rhine-Maas Canal, 1624-9; Olivares, the cardinal-infante and Spain's strategy in the Low Countries; the road to Rocroi, 1635-43; art and diplomacy - Gerard Ter Borch and the Munster Peace negotiations, 1646-8; Spain and Europe from the Peace of Munster, (1648) to the Peace of the Pyrenees, 1648-54; Dutch Sephardi jewry, millenarian politics, and the struggle for Brazil, 1640-54; the diplomatic career of Jeronimo Nunes da Costa - an episode in Dutch-Portuguese relations of the seventeenth century; Lopo Ramirez (David Curiel) and the attempt to establish a Sephardi community in Antwerp, 1653-54; the Jews of Spanish Oran and their expulsion in 1669; toleration in seventeenth-century Dutch and English thought; William III and toleration; England's mercantilist response to Dutch world trade primacy, 1647-74; the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and the English revolution of 1688; England, the Dutch and the struggle for mastery of world trade in the age of the glorious revolution; Gregorio Leti, 1631-1701 and the Dutch Sephardi elite at the close of the seventeenth century; the Dutch republic and the jews during the conflict over the Spanish succession, 1699-1715.