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Dutch War of Independence | For younger readers | Netherlands

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Dutch War of Independence

Hainsworth, Roger. The Anglo-Saxon Dutch Naval Wars: 1652-1674. Sutton, 1998. Recounts the background, causes, and consequences.

Israel, Jonathan Irvine. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806. Oxford University Press, 1995. Maps, illustrations, and a strong chronological narrative highlight this one-volume history of the Dutch Republic.

Jones, J. R. The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century. Longman, 1996. A balanced view providing both Dutch and English perspectives on the three Anglo-Dutch wars of the 17th century.

Sonnino, Paul. Louis XIV and the Origins of the Dutch War. Cambridge University Press, 1989, 2002. Captures the complicated diplomacy between the French and the Dutch.

For younger readers

Netherlands … in Pictures. Lerner, 1991. For readers in grades 5 to 7.

Fradin, Dennis Brindell. The Netherlands. Children's Press, 1983. Geography, history, and culture, for middle-school readers and up.

van Stegeren, Theo. The Land and People of the Netherlands. HarperCollins, 1991. For middle school readers.

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Netherlands

Blom, J.C.H., and E. Lambert. History of the Low Countries. Trans. James C. Kennedy. Berghahn Books, 1999. A solid one-volume history, from Roman times to the present.

Dash, Mike. Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused. Crown, 2000. Popular history of the speculation in tulip bulbs in 17th-century Holland.

North, Michael. Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age. Trans. Catherine Hill. Yale University Press, 1997, 1997. An examination of Dutch society and culture in the 17th century.

Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. Knopf, Reprint, Vintage, 1987. 1997. Lively, illustrated social history.

Schama, Simon. Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813. Knopf, Reprint, Vintage, 1977. 1992. Documents the calamities that befell the Dutch.

Westermann, Mariet. A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718. Abrams, 1996. Dutch life as shown through its art.

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