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The Dutch Republic, formally known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, was a confederation of seven provinces in the Low Countries that existed from 1581 to 1795. It was characterized by a unique political structure, economic prosperity, and cultural achievements during the Golden Age, marked by significant advancements in trade, art, and science.
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The Dutch Republic, formally known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, was a confederation of seven provinces in the Low Countries that existed from 1581 to 1795. It was characterized by a unique political structure, economic prosperity, and cultural achievements during the Golden Age, marked by significant advancements in trade, art, and science.

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1. How did Hugo Grotius’s historical writings reinterpret the Dutch Revolt through the lens of reason of state and religious policy?

This theme explores Grotius’s Annales et Historiae de rebus belgicis as a revisionist historiographical work that applies Tacitean styles and Lipsian reason of state philosophy to the narrative of the Dutch Revolt, emphasizing political calculation over religious idealism. By presenting religion largely as a source of discord and downplaying confessional motivations, Grotius provides a framework for understanding the volatile politics of the Republic’s formative decades. His work challenges traditional narratives by illuminating the complexities of governance, political pragmatism, and religious policy in early 17th-century Dutch republic.

Key finding: This work highlights Hugo Grotius’s role as a commissioner and historiographer, discussing the detailed historical methodology underpinning his Annales. It underscores Grotius’s capacity to connect political-economic... Read more

2. How did the Dutch Empire’s bureaucracy in South Asia integrate and adapt local governance practices to sustain imperial control?

Focused on Dutch colonial administration in South Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this theme reveals how Dutch officials operating in offices such as the zamindar-fiscaal and disāva adopted and blended vernacular bureaucratic practices and languages to effectively manage land, labor, and legal disputes at the local level. It highlights the hybridity, performativity, and parasitic nature of paperwork in these colonial offices, illuminating the transformation of VOC agents from traders to territorial rulers and their reliance on pre-existing indigenous institutions.

Key finding: This article demonstrates, through archival and legal case analyses, how Dutch officials assumed local titles and incorporated indigenous administrative paperwork in South Asian colonial offices. It reveals that Dutch... Read more

3. What roles did cultural production—especially cartography, print media, and music—play in shaping political identity and memory in the Dutch Republic?

This theme investigates how artistic and media practices functioned as tools for political representation, memory construction, and ideological assertion in the Dutch Republic. It covers the Blaeu family’s cartographic enterprise and its interplay with national historiography, the purposeful compilation of print materials for partisan historical narratives, and the usage of military music to communicate discipline and identity. Such cultural artifacts reveal the intertwining of aesthetics, politics, and commerce, shaping perceptions of power and historical legacy.

Key finding: This review highlights Zandvliet’s archival work that challenges the mythologized Golden Age Blaeu narrative by revealing a textured portrayal of the Blaeu family’s cartographic and publishing activities. It emphasizes the... Read more
Key finding: Analyzing a unique seventeenth-century Sammelband, this article shows how Amsterdam publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher bundled prints and pamphlets into curated collections to shape Orangist historical memory regarding Johan van... Read more
Key finding: This work compiles and analyzes surviving military marches and signals of the Dutch States' Army in the eighteenth century, revealing their crucial role in communication, discipline, and ceremonial functions. It discusses the... Read more

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This paper examines the promise, deflation, and afterlives of Article 13 of the Union of Utrecht (1579), a clause that boldly declared that “every individual should remain free in his religion, and no man should be molested on the subject... more
A N ALMOST FORGOTTEN 1640 contract unravels the roles of a largely forgotten patroon and his pious cousin in the history of New Netherland. The economic ventures of Godard van Reede, Lord of Nederhorst, sharply contrast with the spiritual... more
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Wat betekende de politieke context voor het functioneren van een vorstelijk hof? Dat is de centrale vraag van dit proefschrift, waarin het hof van stadhouder Willem V (r. 1766-1795) in de Nederlandse Republiek wordt vergeleken met dat van... more
De Patriottenbeweging heeft niet alleen het politieke einde van de oude Republiek ingeluid, maar ook een verandering teweeg gebracht op het gebied van de politieke cultuur. In het politieke verkeer deden allerlei nieuwe gedrags-, actie-,... more
In the eighteenth century, the Amsterdam capital market became the central place for major European powers to borrow money. Well-established merchant banking houses offered their services to act as intermediaries. This was the market of... more
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Ballare col nemico? / Mit dem Feind tanzen? ed. by Cecilia Nubola and Andreas Würgler
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic formed a popular destination on Polish educational tours through Europe. This article examines which travel guides and other printed media in particular steered the gazes and quills of Polish... more
In dit artikel wordt beschreven hoe de Turnhoutse schepenen, gezworenen en afgevaardigden van de gegoeden (na 1737) werden verkozen.
The histories of the book, of cartography, and a nation all need its gods; yet this publication gives us back the mortal Blaeus, simply ‘tirelessly at work’ (in keeping with their printers’ mark, indefessus agendo), so that no miracles... more
The volume focuses on the political and economic relations between the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily and the Dutch Republic in Eighteenth century. The starting point is the commercial treaty signed by the two States in 1753. Thanks to... more
Originally published in Dutch in four volumes between 1978 and 1981, A. Th. van Deursen's magisterial study of ordinary people living in seventeenth-century Holland reaffirms the uniqueness of the tiny Dutch Republic, most especially the... more
How modern was the Dutch Revolution? This chapter revisits that classic question, taking stock of recent literature. "Modern" is defined as constituting a rupture with the old regime of the Dutch Republic. The "Dutch Revolution" is used... more
La gestion de documents aux Pays-Bas se métamorphose à la suite de changements politiques et administratifs qui s'enclenchent en 1795. Les changements proviennent en bonne partie de l'influence des pratiques françaises, durant la période... more
This essay analyses the comparisons made in the Apology against the articles of the Christian Religion by Muhamad Alguazir (c. 1610). Alguazir, a Morisco from Pastrana (Spain), was one of the Moriscos living at the court of sultan Mawlay... more
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periode bestaat de laatste decennia vrij veel belangstelling, niet alleen bij Nederlandse historici, maar ook in het buitenland 1. In 1965 kreeg de discussie over dit tijdvak een krachtige impuls door de zeer polemische dissertatie van... more
Bij eerste kennismaking ziet Adel en Ridderschap in Utrecht van Renger E. de Bruin er bijna intimiderend uit. Het boek voelt zwaar aan als je het oppakt, het formaat is groot en de hoofdtekst telt twee kolommen (het uitvoerige... more
We were present at Utrecht at the August Ceremony of Swearing in their new Magistrates. In no instance, of ancient or modern History, have the People ever asserted more unequivocally their own inherent and unalienable Sovereignty.
During the reign of Louis Bonaparte (1806-10) the Kingdom of holland suffered three major catastrophes: the explosion in the city of Leiden (1807) and floods in the provinces of Zeeland (1808) and gelderland (1809). this paper will... more
A third conclusion is that the data contained within the memorials of the ROD when gathered and analysed in a systematic manner represent an important and to date underutilised source for studying the financial, personal and social... more
De geschiedenis van de Nederlandse katholieken in de achttiende eeuw is tot nu toe vooral op landelijk niveau beschreven. De plakkatenwetgeving en het Utrechts schisma krijgen daarbij een zware nadruk. De effecten die deze in de praktijk... more
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Historians have often portrayed the Dutch Republic as the first ‘bourgeois’ society. What they had in mind was an early example of a society dominated by the sort of middle class that emerged in most other European countries after the... more
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Citizenship, Charles Tilly has said, is``a continuing series of transactions between persons and agents of a given state in which each has enforceable rights and obligations uniquely by virtue of 1) the persons' membership in an exclusive... more
This article investigates the flexible boundaries of Early Modern Dutch print media and the practice of Early Modern publishers and collectors who combined printed images and texts to create historical narratives in accordance with their... more
Fashion and Monarchy. This essay focuses on (French) royal court life, long term processes in society at large, and fashion. While during the reign of the Roi Soleil the royal court dictated what was in vogue, nowadays European queens are... more
This article proposes a combined perspective of Greenblatt’s famous concept of ‘self-fashioning’ and Reddy’s well-known theory of ‘emotives’ as a possible new approach to the study of Dutch political culture, and more specifically to... more
The importance of the Dutch Revolution of the late eighteenth century for political developments in the Northern Netherlands is still contested. Most historians view the period as the starting point of a number of democratic institutions,... more
The importance of the Dutch Revolution of the late eighteenth century for political developments in the Northern Netherlands is still contested. Most historians view the period as the starting point of a number of democratic institutions,... more
travel narratives are a historical source full of pitfalls. nevertheless, these stories do provide much historical information, not just about the country visited and its people, but about the traveller as well. texts of this genre in... more
This essay introduces the special section "Crime and Gender." The first part explains the disregard for women in crime history. The second part summarizes the state of research. The final part describes the aim and introduces the... more
This book forum focuses on Wim Klooster’s The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2016). In his book, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an... more
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