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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Plates | |
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| Explanatory Notes to the Plates | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Making of the Republic, 1477-1588 | |
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| On the Threshold of the Modern Era | |
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| Humanism and the Origins of the Reformation, 1470-1520 | |
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| Territorial Consolidation, 1516-1559 | |
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| The Early Dutch Reformation, 1519-1565 | |
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| Society Before the Revolt | |
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| The Breakdown of the Habsburg Regime, 1549-1566 | |
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| Repression Under Alva, 1567-1572 | |
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| The Revolt Begins | |
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| The Revolt and the Emergence of a New State | |
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| The Early Golden Age 1588-1647 | |
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| Consolidation of the Republic, 1588-1590 | |
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| The Republic Becomes a Great Power, 1590-1609 | |
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| The Institutions of the Republic | |
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| The Commencement of Dutch World Trade Primacy | |
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| Society After the Revolt | |
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| Protestantization, Catholicization, Confessionalization | |
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| The Separation of Identities: the Twelve Years Truce | |
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| Crisis Within the Dutch Body Politic, 1607-1616 | |
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| The Fall of the Oldenbarnevelt Regime, 1616-1618 | |
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| The Calvinist Revolution of the Counter-Remonstrants, 1618-1621 | |
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| The Republic Under Siege, 1621-1628 | |
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| The Republic in Triumph, 1629-1647 | |
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| Art and Architecture, 1590-1648 | |
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| Intellectual Life, 1572-1650 | |
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| The Later Golden Age 1647-1702 | |
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| The Stadholderate of William Ii, 1647-1650 | |
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| Society | |
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| Confessionalization, 1647-1702 | |
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| Freedom and Order | |
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| The Republic at Its Zenith, I: the 1650s | |
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| The Republic at Its Zenith, Ii: 1659-1672 | |
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| 1672: Year of Disaster | |
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| The Stadholderate of William Iii, 1672-1702 | |
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| Art and Architecture, 1645-1702 | |
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| Intellectual Life, 1650-1700 | |
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| The Colonial Empire | |
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| The Age of Decline, 1702-1806 | |
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| The Republic of the Regents, 1702-1747 | |
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| Society | |
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| The Churches | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| The Second Orangist Revolution, 1747-1751 | |
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| The Faltering Republic and the New Dynamism in the 'south' | |
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| The Patriot Revolution, 1780-1787 | |
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| The Fall of the Republic | |
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| Denouement | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |