Boundaries and their meanings in the history of the Netherlands
By: edited by Benjamin Kaplan, Marybeth Carlson, Laura Cruz.
Contributors: Kaplan, Benjamin J.; Carlson, Marybeth.; Cruz, Laura, 1969-
Series: Studies in Central European histories -- 48
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004176379
Subjects: Boundaries -- Social aspects -- Netherlands -- History; Boundaries -- Political aspects -- Netherlands -- History; Netherlands -- Historical geography; Netherlands -- Boundaries -- History; Netherlands -- Historiography; Netherlands -- Colonies -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Boundaries : real and imagined" / Laura Cruz and Hubert P. van Tuyll; title: pt. 1. The golden age; title: Divided loyalties : states-Brabant as a border country / C.O. van der Meij; title: Geography unbound : boundaries and the exotic world in the early Enlightenment / Benjamin Schmidt; title: Deciphering the Dutch in Deshima / Mia M. Mochizuki; title: The transnational dispersal of the Walloon military aristocracy in the era of the Dutch revolt : the example of the Tserclaes of Tilly / John Theibault; title: The geographic extent of the Dutch book trade in the 17th century : an old question revisited / Laura Cruz; title: Pragmatic agents of empire : Dutch intercultural mediators among the Mohawks in seventeenth-century New   Netherland / Mark Meuwese; title: pt. 2. The modern age; title: Neutral borders, neutral waters, neutral skies : protecting the territorial neutrality of the Netherlands in the Great War, 1914-1918 / Maartje M. Abbenhuis; title: Last chance : Belgium at Versailles / Hubert P. van Tuyll; title: The Dutch border areas, 1933-1945 : inducement for incidents or object of structural historiographical neglect? / Bob de Graaff; title: "Our national community" : the dominance of organic thinking in the post-war Netherlands / Martin Bossenbroek; title: Dwinegeri-multiculturalism and the colonial past (or: The cultural borders of being Dutch, part 1) / Susan Legene.