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The Rise and Fall of the Dutch Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. S. Bromley
J. S. Bromley
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University of Southampton
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The Historical Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 1979 , pp. 985 - 995
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2 There is some overlap between pre-and post-1566 activity, indicated by asterisks, whose significance is not however clarified until a footnote at the end of the appendixes.

3 I owe this observation and much else to Mr A. C. Duke of Southampton. Cf. Regnault, J. M. and Vermander, P., ‘La crise iconoclaste de 1566 dans la région d'Armentières’, Revue du Nord, LIX (1977), 221–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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23 And summarized, with fresh detail, in Duke, A. C. and Tamse, C. A. (eds.), Britain and the Netherlands, VI (The Hague, 1977), 94–123Google Scholar. This volume, subentitled ‘War and society’, contains two further contributions of some relevance: J. Aalbers, ‘Holland's financial problems (1713–1733) and the wars against Louis XIV, and Buist, M. G., ‘The sinews of war: the role of Dutch finance in European politics (c. 1750–1815)’ – a useful summary of Buist's thesis, At spes rum fracta: Hope & Co. 1770–1815 (The Hague, 1974)Google Scholar, which has escaped Dr Schama's net.