The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806

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Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster forms the inaugural volume of a new series, the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe, and offers a comprehensive, integrated account of the northern part of the Netherlands over almost 350 years… The Dutch Republic represents the fruit of 12 years of research, contemplation and writing, and brims over with interesting detail. — The New York Times Book Review Israel performs the great service of charting a path through this literature and presents a coherent and comprehensive picture of the Dutch Republic… Comprehensive in scope and yet so clearly and carefully written that it could serve as a textbook for graduate history courses. Because it is so thoroughly researched and up-to-date, it is also the kind of indispensable handbook that deserves a place on every early modernist's bookshelf. — American Historical Review Preface Acknowledgements Contents List of Plates Explanatory Notes to the Plates List of Maps List of Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 On the Threshold of the Modern Era 3 Humanism and the Origins of the Reformation, 1470-1520 4 Territorial Consolidation, 1516-1559 5 The Early Dutch Reformation, 1519-1565 6 Society before the Revolt 7 The Breakdown of the Habsburg Regime, 1549-1566 8 Repression under Alva, 1567-1572 9 The Revolt Begins 10 The Revolt and the Emergence of a new State 11 Consolidation of the Republic, 1588-1590 12 The Republic Becomes a Great Power, 1590-1609 13 The Institutions of the Republic 14 The Commencement of Dutch World Trade Primacy 15 Society after the Revolt 16 Protestantization, Catholicization, Confessionalization 17 The Separation of Identities: The Twelve Years Truce 18 Crisis within the Dutch Body Politic, 1607-1616 19 The Fall of the Oldenbarnevelt Regime, 1616-1618 20 The Calvinist Revolution of the Counter-Remonstrants, 1618-1621 21 The Republic under Siege, 1621-1628 22 The Republic in Triumph, 1629-1647 23 Art and Architecture, 1590-1648 24 Intellectual Life, 1572-1650 25 The Stadholderate of William II, 1647-1650 26 Society 27 Confessionalization, 1647-1702 28 Freedom and Order 29 The Republic at its Zenith, I: The 1650s 30 The Republic at its Zenith, II: 1659-1672 31 1672: Year of Disaster 32 The Stadholderate of William III, 1672-1702 33 Art and Architecture, 1645-1702 34 Intellectual Life, 1650-1700 35 The Colonial Empire 36 The Republic of the Regents, 1702-1747 37 Society 38 The Churches 39 The Enlightenment 40 The Second Orangist Revolution, 1747-1751 41 The Faltering Republic and the New Dynamism in the 'South’ 42 The Patriot Revolution, 1780-1787 43 The Fall of the Republic 44 Denouement Bibliography Index