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This is the first book to examine the history of the country in a
way that connects global processes to local developments. Taking
account of social, political and economic dynamics over the last
thousand years, the book addresses key questions that get to the
heart of the Netherlands' role in the world, both historically and
in more recent times: * Why did the 'West' become such a
significant actor in the world, and what part did the Netherlands
play? * What were the driving forces in state-formation, and in
what respects and why did the Netherlands take a different path to
most of Europe? * How did globalisation impact economic structures
and socio-cultural life, and how did the Netherlands react to these
new challenges? * How did this very Christian and bourgeois nation
develop into a flagship for liberal tolerance? The book carefully
balances a wider investigation of these issues with close
inspections of how ordinary people experienced the changes they
prompted. It also provide a convincing, judicious assessment of the
ebbs and flows of this small country's global influence over time:
prominent as a Golden Age economic powerhouse, colonial power, and
bastion of political freedom in some eras, and yet impotent on the
world stage at others. Supplemented with 35 images, 10 maps, a
wealth of text boxes, charts and tables, as well as a companion
website, this book is the definitive history of the Netherlands in
a global context.
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zurcher travelled to China for
the first time, a country he had been studying since 1947. A
collection of Zurcher's personal writings from his trip, including
letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not
only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture
of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely
inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world
politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, Lyndon Johnson won the
US presidential election against Barry Goldwater, and China became
a nuclear power, Zurcher experienced the reality of China under Mao
Zedong. Only recently discovered, these documents portray, viewed
through an expert's eye, a land in the midst of its own massive
political, social, and economic change. Both a fascinating account
by an informed outsider and a reminder of just how much China and
the rest of the world have changed over the last fifty years, this
is essential reading for anyone interested in East Asia and Asian
history as a whole.
This is the first book to examine the history of the country in a
way that connects global processes to local developments. Taking
account of social, political and economic dynamics over the last
thousand years, the book addresses key questions that get to the
heart of the Netherlands' role in the world, both historically and
in more recent times: * Why did the 'West' become such a
significant actor in the world, and what part did the Netherlands
play? * What were the driving forces in state-formation, and in
what respects and why did the Netherlands take a different path to
most of Europe? * How did globalisation impact economic structures
and socio-cultural life, and how did the Netherlands react to these
new challenges? * How did this very Christian and bourgeois nation
develop into a flagship for liberal tolerance? The book carefully
balances a wider investigation of these issues with close
inspections of how ordinary people experienced the changes they
prompted. It also provide a convincing, judicious assessment of the
ebbs and flows of this small country's global influence over time:
prominent as a Golden Age economic powerhouse, colonial power, and
bastion of political freedom in some eras, and yet impotent on the
world stage at others. Supplemented with 35 images, 10 maps, a
wealth of text boxes, charts and tables, as well as a companion
website, this book is the definitive history of the Netherlands in
a global context.
The Hollandsche Schouwburg is a former theatre in Amsterdam where,
during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, tens of thousands of
Jews were assembled before being deported to transit and
concentration camps. Before the war, the theatre had been an
example of Jewish integration in the Netherlands, and after the war
it became a memorial for the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
This book is the first international publication to address all the
historical aspects of the site, putting it in a broader European
and historical context.
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