Pieter Geyl and Britain : : encounters, controversies, impact / / edited by Stijn van Rossem, Ulrich Tiedau.

• TeilnehmendeR: Rossem, Stijn van,; Tiedau, Ulrich, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: London : : University of London Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages) :; illustrations

Pieter Geyl (1887-1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Having come to the UK as a journalist, he started his academic career at the University of London in the aftermath of World War I (1919)...

Table of Contents

• Notes on contributors
• List of figures
• 1. Geyl and Britain: an introduction
• 2. The Greater Netherlands idea of Pieter Geyl (1887-1966)
• 3. Pieter Geyl and Émile Cammaerts: the Dutch and Belgian chairs at the University of London between academia and propaganda, 1914-35
• 4. Pieter Geyl and the Institute of Historical Research
• 5. 'It's a part of me': the literary ambitions of Pieter Geyl
• 6. Pieter Geyl and the idea of federalism
• 7. Debating Toynbee after the Holocaust: Pieter Geyl as a post-war public historian
• 8. Pieter Geyl and the eighteenth century
• 9. The historiographical legacy of Pieter Geyl for revolutionary and Napoleonic studies
• 10. Pieter Geyl and his entanglement with German Westforschung
• 11. Between Leuven and Utrecht: the afterlife of Pieter Geyl and the 'Greater Netherlands idea'
• Bibliography
• Index.