From Ranke to Toynbee: Five Lectures on Historians and Historiographical Problems. --
- 94 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Pieter Geyl Book order
December 15, 1887 – December 31, 1966
This Dutch historian and historiographer primarily focused on Dutch history and the birth of the Dutch nation. His work explored the pivotal moments in the formation of Dutch identity. He was also an early proponent of the "Greater Netherlands" idea, aiming for the unification of the Netherlands and Flanders into a single country. During World War II, he was forbidden to publish and was interned for several years.
- 2021
- 1989
The Netherlands in the 17th Century 1609-1648
- 292 pages
- 11 hours of reading
/ 9780304317813 / History / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / soft cover / 14 x 22 cm / 267 .pp /
- 1988
"The Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609" is the first volume in authors magnificent - but sadly incomplete - history of the Dutch speaking peoples. In this superb panorama of politics and war, Geyl tells the epic story of the Netherlands heroic struggle against the might of Spain, and of the rise and the establishment of the Dutch Republic. As such it remains the definite account of one of the central episodes in early modern European history. But it also addresses issues which remain alive and important today: the relation between religious beliefs and political action, the complex questions of national identity, and the problems be setting a small country struggling to survive in a great power world. Above all, it is suffused by the author's abiding believe in the vitality of European civilization.
