Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813Knopf, 1977 - 745 pagina's "A tour de force, the first work of a young English scholar that is already attracting the highest acclaim..., Patriots and Liberators captures the disintegration of a great European power--the Dutch Republic--into military impotence, economic ruin and near terminal eclipse as a nation state. Drawing on a mass of previously untouched archival material from several countries, Simon Schama gives us a brilliant portrait of an extraordinary nation at the point of no return. The moment is the ominous pause before the political cataclysm that will engulf the Old World in 1789. ... For more than a hundred years, the Dutch have been admired and envied as the miracle of a continent: affluent, urbane and tolerant, the masters of a global maritime empire, providers of Europe's ships, grain, cloth and spices, bankers to its monarchs, pioneers in science and printing, they have placed their stamp upon Western civilisation. But now their splendour is decaying, their Golden Century at an end. As grandeur sinks towards catastrophe (an incapable ruler, chaos in government, famine and poverty spreading across the land, an army and fleet pathetically inadequate to safeguard the Republic's independence), we see a people in extremis: they must either resign themselves to the total erosion of their power or else embark--deliberately--upon their own revolution. They choose the second course (three years before revolution erupts in France), but the brave attempt at regeneration--their enterprise: to create a democracy of citizens in arms--ends in disaster. Schama's book graphically documents the succession of calamities--civil war, invasion, occupation, economic strangulation and political sabotage--that befalls the Dutch from this moment on in their desperate efforts to avert obliteration as an independent state. Attacked by greedy enemies on all sides (first Prussia, then Britain, then Napoleonic France exporting "Liberty" and revolutionary imperialism on the points of bayonets), the country is tom apart. Livelihoods are ruined, crops destroyed; the fishermen of the deltas are driven to destitution by hostile privateers; beggars and academics in Leiden are caught up in a gunpowder explosion that rips their city apart; all across the land, people are subjected to financial extortion as agents and spies, generals and ambassadors, conspire to wreck the government and exploit every weakness to satisfy the limitless demands of the French war machine. Even Louis Bonaparte, installed by his brother as puppet king of the Dutch, joins his "subjects" in their concerted resistance; ultimately, he will contemplate breaking the dykes that protect his people from the seas and flooding the country rather than surrender. Patriots and Liberators is the anatomy of a satellite state in a time of total war. How the Dutch miraculously survived is the drama of this monumental, driving book, whose revelations mark a major contribution to our understanding of the shaping of modern Europe."--Dust jacket. |
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... revolution . The term " national revolution " can hardly avoid evoking unsavoury con- notations for the twentieth - century reader . Here it is used more innocently to promote the Dutch revolution above its customary station as a ...
... revolution . The term " national revolution " can hardly avoid evoking unsavoury con- notations for the twentieth - century reader . Here it is used more innocently to promote the Dutch revolution above its customary station as a ...
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Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813 Simon Schama. 1795 as the " School of the Revolution . " Still more important it provided , in the shape of the revolutionary armies , the force necessary to bring down the old Republic and ...
Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813 Simon Schama. 1795 as the " School of the Revolution . " Still more important it provided , in the shape of the revolutionary armies , the force necessary to bring down the old Republic and ...
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Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813 Simon Schama. behaviour were determined by the events central to the " Revolution . " Con- versely , the dimension in which the Revolution itself may best be compre- hended , remains , as far as ...
Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813 Simon Schama. behaviour were determined by the events central to the " Revolution . " Con- versely , the dimension in which the Revolution itself may best be compre- hended , remains , as far as ...
Inhoudsopgave
CHAPTER | 6 |
The Batavian Republic and the Integrity of Dutch History | 15 |
CHAPTER 2 | 24 |
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administration alliance Amsterdam appointed armed army authority Batavian Republic Blauw Bonaparte Bosch Brabant British burgemeester burghers campaign Capellen centre clubs commission Committee constitution council councillors coup Daendels defence Delacroix democracy democratic despite Directory Dumont-Pigalle Dutch Republic Dutch revolution economic elected enemies established federalists Fijnje finance force foreign France Free Corps French Friesland Gelderland Gogel Grand Pensionary Groningen guilders guilds Haarlem Hague Holland House of Orange institutions interest Jacobin January land provinces Leiden less liberty Louis major ment military militia minister municipal Napoleon National Assembly Netherlands Orangist Overijssel Paris Patriot Patriot revolt Paulus Pensionary Pieter political poor popular predikants Prince Prussian radical reform regents regime remained representatives republican restoration revolution revolutionary Rotterdam Schimmelpenninck schutterij seemed social societies South Holland sovereignty Spiegel Stadholder Stadholder's Stadholderian States-General tion towns trade traditional troops unitarists Utrecht Valckenaer virtually vote Vreede William Wiselius Zeeland
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