The Dutch Republic
Subtitle: its rise, greatness and fall, 1477-1806
By: Jonathan Israel.
Series: The Oxford history of early modern Europe
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1231
Subjects: Netherlands -- History -- House of Habsburg, 1477-1556.; Netherlands -- History -- Wars of Independence, 1556-1648.; Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1795.; Netherlands -- History -- Batavian Republic, 1795-1806.
Notes: Repr. with corrections. Originally published 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of Plates
pagenum: xvi; title: Explanatory Notes to the Plates
pagenum: xviii; title: List of Maps
pagenum: xxiv; title: List of Tables
pagenum: xxv; title: Abbreviations
pagenum: xxxviii; label: 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: The Making of a Republic, 1977-1588; label: 2
title: On the Threshold of the Modern Era
pagenum: 9; title: The Rise of Holland
pagenum: 9; title: Under the Burgundians
pagenum: 21; title: The Early Habsburg Netherlands
pagenum: 29; title: The Institutions of the Habsburg Netherlands
pagenum: 35; label: 3
title: Humanism and the Origins of the Reformation, 1470-1520
pagenum: 41; label: 4
title: Territorial Consolidation, 1516-1559
pagenum: 55; label: 5
title: The Early Dutch Reformation, 1519-1559
pagenum: 74; title: The Netherlands Church on the Eve of the Reformation
pagenum: 74; title: The Impact of Luther
pagenum: 79; title: Fragmentation
pagenum: 84; title: Spiritualism and the Impact of Persecution
pagenum: 96; title: The Rise of Calvinism
pagenum: 101; label: 6
title: Society before the Revolt
pagenum: 106; title: The Land, Rural Society, and Agriculture
pagenum: 106; title: Urbanization
pagenum: 113; title: The Urban Economy
pagenum: 116; title: Institutions of Civic Life:  Guilds, Militias, Chambers of Rhetoric
pagenum: 119; title: Poverty and Civic Welfare
pagenum: 123; title: The Regents
pagenum: 125; label: 7
title: The Breaddown of the Habsburg Regime, 1549-1566
pagenum: 129; title: The Seeds of Revolt
pagenum: 129; title: Crisis, 1559-1566
pagenum: 137; label: 8
title: Repression under Alva, 1567-1572
pagenum: 155; label: 9
title: The Revolt Begins
pagenum: 169; label: 10
title: The Revolt and the emergence of a New State
pagenum: 179; title: The Revolt Survives, 1573-1575
pagenum: 179; title: From the Pacification of Ghent (1576) to the Union of Utrecht (1579)
pagenum: 184; title: The Two Netherlands
pagenum: 196; title: The Habsburg Reconquest of the South, 1579-1585
pagenum: 205; title: The North Netherlands under Leicester, 1585-1587
pagenum: 220; label: II
title: The Early Golden Age, 1588-1647; label: 11
title: Consolidation of the Republic, 1588-1609
pagenum: 233; label: 12
title: The Republic Becomes a Great Power, 1590-1609
pagenum: 241; title: Territorial Expansion
pagenum: 241; title: The Fixed Garrison system
pagenum: 262; title: The Dutch Military Reforms and their European Significance
pagenum: 267; title: The Dutch in Europe: Skills, Technolgy, and Engineering
pagenum: 271; label: 13
title: The Institutions of the Republic
pagenum: 276; title: The Provinces
pagenum: 276; title: Taxation and the Tax System
pagenum: 285; title: The Generality
pagenum: 291; title: The Generality Lands
pagenum: 297; title: The Stadholderate
pagenum: 300; label: 14
title: The COmmencement of Dutch Workd Trade Primacy
pagenum: 307; title: Revolt, Commerce, and Migration from the South
pagenum: 307; title: The Changing Balance between 'Bulk-Carrying' and the 'Rich Trades'
pagenum: 315; title: The Beginnings of the Dutch Colonial Empire
pagenum: 318; label: 15
title: Society after the Revolt
pagenum: 328; title: Urbanization
pagenum: 328; title: Rural Society
pagenum: 332; title: The Nobility
pagenum: 337; title: The Regents
pagenum: 341; title: The Merchant Elite
pagenum: 344; title: The Elite of the Skilled
pagenum: 348; title: Wages
pagenum: 351; title: Civic Poor Relief and Charitable Instiutions
pagenum: 353; label: 16
title: Protestanization, Catholicization, Confessionalization
pagenum: 361; title: The Confessional Arena
pagenum: 361; title: The Organization of the Dutch Reformed Church
pagenum: 367