Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813From the brilliant historian who gave us Citizens and Dead Certainties, an innovative and grandly entertaining account of an empire in its death throes. How the Dutch Republic went from the powerful cash till of Europe to an impoverished and despised appendage of the French empire is the subject of this scrupulously researched work. 16 pages of photographs. |
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Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813 Simon Schama Fragmentweergave - 1977 |
Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813 Simon Schama Fragmentweergave - 1977 |