First published in 1929. Bontekoe's East Indian Voyage was a popular book in which the Dutch seventeenth century public delighted, and continued to be reprinted throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Regarded by many (including Simon Schama) as Pieter Geyl's finest work, this enthralling study describes the struggle between the House of Orange and the Regents of Holland in the mid-seventeenth century. In light of the links with the Engl...
A superb panorama of politics and war that brings together two classic volumes by Geyl: The Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609 and The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century 1609-1648. Here is the story of the Netherlanders' epic struggle ...
