The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth-Century : : Decline, Enlightenment, and Revolution / / ed. by Margaret C. Jacob, Wijnand W. Mijnhardt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Berg, W. van den,; Boheemen-Saaf, Christine van,; Brake, Wayne Ph. te,; Frijhoff, Willem Th. M.,; Grijzenhout, Frans,; Jacob, Margaret C.,; Jongste, Jan A. F. de,; Kossmann, E. H.,; Mijnhardt, Wijnand W.,; Mulier, Eco O. G. Haitsma,; Pocock, J. G. A.,; Popkin, Jeremy D.,; Sas, Nicolaas C. F. van,; Snelders, H.A.M.,; Velema, Wyger R. E.,; Worst, I. J. H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Jacob, Margaret C.,; Mijnhardt, Wijnand W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 5 halftones, 2 maps

Following the brilliant "Golden Century," the eighteenth century has seemed to many historians of the Netherlands one of decline and a time when Dutch politics were dominated by foreign influences. Yet this was a period when the Netherlands served as a major publishing center for enlightened ideas, and when the Dutch Revolution of 1787 anticipated that of the French. Bringing together eighteen essays by a distinguished group of Dutch and American historians, the present volume restores a neglected chapter in the history of the Netherlands and makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Enlightenment as a European—not merely a French or an English—phenomenon.The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century will be valuable reading for those interested in the history of eighteenth-century European politics and culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- THREE DUTCH REVOLUTIONS: 1747, 1787, 1795 -- 1. The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century -- 2. The Restoration of the Orangist Regime in 1747: The Modernity of a “Glorious Revolution ” -- 3. Provincial Histories and National Revolution in the Dutch Republic -- 4. The Patriot Revolution: New Perspectives -- THE DUTCH REPUBLICAN TRADITION -- 5. Elie Luzac and Two Dutch Revolutions: The Evolution of Orangist Political Thought -- 6. Constitution, History, and Natural Law: An Eighteenth- Century Political Debate in the Dutch Republic -- 7. Between Humanism and Enlightenment: The Dutch Writing of History -- 8. The Dutch Republican Tradition -- THE DUTCH ENLIGHTENMENT -- 9. The Dutch Enlightenment: Humanism, Nationalism, and Decline -- 10. Radicalism in the Dutch Enlightenment -- 11. The Fiction of (National) Identity: Literature and Ideology in the Dutch Republic -- 12. Literary Sociability in the Netherlands, 1750—1840 -- DUTCH CULTURE IN ITS SOCIAL SETTING -- 13. Print Culture in the Netherlands on the Eve of the Revolution -- 14. The Dutch Enlightenment and the Creation of Popular Culture -- 15. Professors, Amateurs, and Learned Societies: The Organization of the Natural Sciences -- 16. A Myth of Decline -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index