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The Dutch Revolt 1559-1648 / / Peter Limm



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Autore: Limm Peter Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Dutch Revolt 1559-1648 / / Peter Limm Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina: 949.2/02
949.203
Soggetto geografico: Netherlands History Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648
Note generali: First published 1989 by Addison Wesley Longman.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF MAPS; INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES; Part One: The Background; 1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; The Habsburgs and the Burgundian inheritance; The extension of Habsburg power; The structure of government; Other divisive influences; A new ruler: continuity and change; Part Two: Descriptive Analysis; 2 PRELUDE TO REVOLT, 1559-1566; Growing opposition: garrisons, Spanish councillors and bishoprics; The heresy factor - a turning point?; 3 THE FIRST REVOLT, 1566-1568; The 'Compromise of the Nobility'; The crisis of 1566-67: iconoclasm
The crisis of 1566-67: the Spanish debate and the defeat of the rebels; Alva and the invasion of William of Orange; 4 ALVA'S REGIME AND THE SECOND REVOLT, 1568-1576; 1572: the Sea Beggars and William of Orange; Holland and Zealand; Spanish mutiny and bankruptcy; The Pacification of Ghent and the widening of resistance; 5 FROM FRAGILE UNITY TO DEEPENING CRISIS: THE BREAK-UP OF THE NETHERLANDS, 1576-1584; The Unions of Arras and Utrecht; Anjou and the Act of Abjuration; 6 THE BIRTH OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC TO THE TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE, 1584-1609; Elizabeth I and the Armada: another turning point?
Leicester's brief Governorship; Political and constitutional arrangements; The Spanish Netherlands; 7 THE TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE, 1609-1621; The renewal of war; 8 WAR WITH SPAIN, 1621-1648; The drive for peace, 1641-48; Part Three: Assessment; 9 THE ECONOMICS OF REVOLT; The Dutch Republic; The southern provinces; Spain; 10 MILITARY ASPECTS OF THE REVOLT; The terrain; The armies; Fortress warfare; 11 POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES: WAS THE DUTCH REVOLT A REVOLUTION?; Did the States-General of the Netherlands become revolutionary in the sixteenth century?; The campaign to dismiss Granvelle
1566 Alva and 1572; The peace talks at Breda (1575) and the revolt of 1576; The Union of Utrecht (1579); Part Four: Documents; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: The Dutch Revolt 1559-1648 begins by illustrating the historical background and causes of the revolt. This is followed by chronological sections devoted to each phase of the revolt and an assessment section that takes a more thematic approach, looking at the military, economic, political and constitutional issues.
Titolo autorizzato: The Dutch Revolt 1559-1648  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-317-88057-9
1-138-83579-X
1-315-83967-9
1-317-88058-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826391803321
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Serie: Seminar studies in history.