Boundaries and their meanings in the history of the Netherlands / / editors, Benjamin Kaplan, Marybeth Carlson, Laura Cruz.

Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual manner. A boundary becomes not an...

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Superior document:Studies in Central European histories ; 48
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies in Central European histories ; 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource (268 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Boundaries : real and imagined" / Laura Cruz and Hubert P. van Tuyll
  • pt. 1. The golden age
  • Divided loyalties : states-Brabant as a border country / C.O. van der Meij
  • Geography unbound : boundaries and the exotic world in the early Enlightenment / Benjamin Schmidt
  • Deciphering the Dutch in Deshima / Mia M. Mochizuki
  • The transnational dispersal of the Walloon military aristocracy in the era of the Dutch revolt : the example of the Tserclaes of Tilly / John Theibault
  • The geographic extent of the Dutch book trade in the 17th century : an old question revisited / Laura Cruz
  • Pragmatic agents of empire : Dutch intercultural mediators among the Mohawks in seventeenth-century New Netherland / Mark Meuwese
  • pt. 2. The modern age
  • Neutral borders, neutral waters, neutral skies : protecting the territorial neutrality of the Netherlands in the Great War, 1914-1918 / Maartje M. Abbenhuis
  • Last chance : Belgium at Versailles / Hubert P. van Tuyll
  • The Dutch border areas, 1933-1945 : inducement for incidents or object of structural historiographical neglect? / Bob de Graaff
  • "Our national community" : the dominance of organic thinking in the post-war Netherlands / Martin Bossenbroek
  • Dwinegeri-multiculturalism and the colonial past (or: The cultural borders of being Dutch, part 1) / Susan Legene.