John de Witt
Subtitle: Statesman of the "True Freedom"
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521527088
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; History; History - General History; Netherlands; Europe - General; History / Europe / General
First sentence: If difficult times are the anvil on which the hammer of personal merit forges historical greatness, the circumstances in which John de Witt took his first office were not favorable.