Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 130, Issue 4, 2017

Abstract Deceptive simplicity. Flandria Borealis: between map and history, between image and representation At the end of the sixteenth century the development of printing technology sparked a knowledge revolution featuring an unprecedented distribution and integration of texts, images, and maps. Thorough research into these texts and maps, generally disregarded as inferior, can reveal surprising and relevant historical Read More

Abstract Agriculture in New Netherland. Commercial circuits and the function of middlemen in the countryside of seventeenth-century New Amsterdam This article tackles the commercial circuits in the interior regions of New Netherland, where seventeenth-century colonial settlers exchanged goods and services. Research in the Low Countries has shown that rural regions had their own commercial circuits dependin Read More

Abstract The Dutch revolution in village and town. Local history-writing on the Patriot-Batavian era, 1875 to the present The Dutch revolution has been a particularly appealing subject for local historians. Since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, historians have produced numerous studies dealing with the Patriot era (c. 1780-87), the Batavian revolution (c. 1795-1801), or the wider revolutionary era, largely from a lo Read More

Abstract Youth of the ‘new Europe’. Transnational connections of the National Youth Storm at the European Youth Association This article sets out to analyze the participation of the National Youth Storm, the largest fascist youth movement in the Netherlands during the Second World War, in the European Youth Association, founded in Vienna in 1942. Following recent research on the transnational dimensions of fascism, I argue th Read More

Abstract More than feeding the ducks. New literature on Emperor Wilhelm II and The Netherlands This article reviews a number of recent publications on Kaiser Wilhelm II in the Netherlands in order to reflect on the place of Wilhelm II in this country’s history. With the flight of Wilhelm II to the Netherlands on 10 November 1918 an ‘involuntary relationship’ began, which necessarily reflected the Dutch perception of the Gr Read More