Titlebook: Britain and the Netherlands; Volume VI: War and S A. C. Duke,C. A. Tamse Book 1977 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1977 English.E

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,Holland’s Financial Problems (1713–1733) and the Wars against Louis XIV, this period can be very enlightening. While conducting my research into the background of the foreign policy of the Republic after 1713 I was impressed by the extent to which the financial predicament of the province of Holland appeared to determine that policy. Inparticular, the preference for neu

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Municipal Government and the Burden of the Poor in South Holland during the Napoleonic Wars,The manifest incapacity of the Republic to protect its integrity without becoming the catspaw of the Anglo-French power struggle, engendered odium and apprehension which ripened into revolutionary disaffection.

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,The Sinews of War: The Role of Dutch Finance in European Politics (,. 1750–1815),nded to make a last stand. But once the situation in Amsterdam returned to normal, Hope was confident Dutch investors could be persuaded to subscribe to a small loan of, for instance, 1,500,000 guilders.

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,Britain and Blockade, 1780–1940,total wars of the twentieth century; second, that it is characteristic of what has been identified as a British, an Anglo-American, or an ‘Anglo-Saxon’ idea of war distinct from (and, as has often also been alleged, morally inferior to) a supposed ‘continental’ one.

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,Away from Impressment: The Idea of a Royal Naval Reserve, 1696–1859, not truly humanized until the 1860s.. Even when other conditions of service had been improved, especially after the mutinies of 1797, flogging remained — and indeed became the focus of Radical attack in parliament following the publication in 1813 of Thomas Hodgskin’s ., .,., .. The ‘evils of impre

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The Second World War and Dutch Society: Continuity and Change,sed through the resistance and the general state of mind during the war, but also in the ideas which were developed concerning post-war society. Pure and high ideals came to the fore. But when it came to realizing these ideals after the defeat of Germany, it seemed that, yet again, less lofty princi

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and historical analysis. Accord­ ing to Thucydides no one was ever compelled to go to war; Cicero remarked how dumb were the laws in time of war, while Clausewitz‘s profound observation concerning the affinity between war and politics has become almost a commonplace. War being the severest test a society or 978-94-017-0002-3978-94-015-7518-8

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