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Artikelen
- H. te Velde, Inleiding. De internationalisering van de nationale geschiedenis en de verzuiling – Introduction. The Internationalization of the National History and the Pillarization
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Efforts to approach Dutch political history from an international perspective have been going on for a long time. This has worked rather well for the early modern period, before the national state existed in a modern form. Nevertheless, applying this to the last few centuries remains a challenge. This is because this period was dominated by the national state and historiography was focussed on the state from the very beginning. Eliminating the national aspect from historiography altogether would not be a desirable course of action. However, it is necessary to be aware of the effects it has, and each generation has its own way of doing this. Nowadays, international comparisons and the history of transfers offer new opportunities. It is against this backdrop that the introduction explains how pillarization expanded to become the Dutch Sonderweg and how a new approach towards political history can compensate for the disadvantages of this perspective.
- J. Pollmann, Internationalisering en de Nederlandse Opstand – Internationalising The Dutch Revolt
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At around 1960 the interpretations of the Dutch Revolt that were propounded in ‘grand narratives’ of sixteenth-century Europe, differed considerably from those on offer in the ‘national’ historiography of the Revolt. That this was to change drastically over the following five decades, was only partly due to changes in Dutch historiography. Most impulses to ‘internationalise’ interpretations of the Dutch Revolt came from outside the Low Countries. While Geoffrey Parker situated the Revolt in its Habsburg context, research into Netherlandish Protestantism also emphasised its international dimensions. Many political developments within the Low Countries, too, can best be understood in a European context. This article offers an analysis of this development, and explores what this might mean for our prospects for a new synthetic study of the Revolt of the Netherlands.
- J. Duindam, Tussen tafellaken en servet. Het stadhouderlijk hof in dynastiek Europa – Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl. The Stadholder’s Court in Dynastic Europe
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This contribution presents a concise image of the recent historiography on the European dynastic court, and then places the stadholder’s court within this context. The modest contours of the latter stand out sharply against developments elsewhere, such as the secular Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, for example. However, the stadholder’s court was far more than just the household of a high-ranking magistrate of noble birth, even though the group of courtiers and servants around the stadholder remained modest in terms of its size and structure. Nor did a wider circle of visitors and clients ever really materialise. The absence of any sovereign basis for the position of stadholder in the Republic apparently made it difficult to turn court life into an instrument for the further advancement of power. Nevertheless, in his capacity as a ‘servant’ of the state machine, the stadholder was able to play a remarkable role under William III – and subsequent generations of stadholders even played a decisive role – within the system of nomination rights and the power relations that stemmed from that.
- A. Jourdan, Politieke en culturele transfers in een tijd van revolutie: Nederland 1795-1805 – Political and Cultural Transfers in a Time of Revolution. The Netherlands 1795-1805
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One of the hallmarks of modern historiography is its strong engagement with the national scene. Yet despite this, European countries have always exchanged ideas and practices and influenced each other. This was the case, for example, between 1795 and 1805, during which period the Dutch had to rethink their society and their government. To do this, they entered into a deep and creative dialogue with France in particular, as well as America. The manner in which this took place and its consequences are explored in this paper.
- R. Aerts, Nationale beginselen? Een transnationale geschiedenis van politiek en grondwet in de negentiende eeuw – National Principles? A Transnational History of Politics and the Constitution in the Nineteenth Century
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How ‘national’ was the political history of the nineteenth century? This question is relevant because it relates to a century steeped in nation-building and nationalism. The article examines both the historiography and the transnational traffic of models for a constitutional order. Paradoxically, it was precisely during this century of nationalism that, more than ever before, the political and constitutional models were of a transnational nature. In general, the Netherlands evolved into an international trend-hopper during the nineteenth century. This also applied to the constitutional process. And yet, against the background of this general trend, the Dutch constitution of 1814/1815 and that of 1848 remained relatively original and were crafted on the basis of the national scene. Moreover, although British, French and Belgian models did indeed feature in the discussions leading up to the revision of the 1848 constitution, they did not play a prominent role. This study invites the audience to reflect upon the nature of ‘national’ as far as this relates to political history and the explanatory frameworks used for it.
- M. Aerts, ‘Hollandsche vecht-suffragettes’? Een kwestie uit de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse feminisme – ‘Holland’s Militant Suffragettes’? A Theme from the History of Dutch Feminism
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The historiography of feminism is bristling with international comparative surveys. It is precisely because of this that the use of national frameworks has been acknowledged, albeit unintentionally and indirectly. Nevertheless, this paper adopts the opposite stance, and argues that both national and internal affairs, as well as international and foreign affairs, can be viewed as categories which serve certain political agendas, thereby making it possible to distinguish between friends and foes in the political struggle. Historians should not reproduce such a differentiation but analyze it instead. To give an example of such an analysis, this paper outlines how the customary distinction between a moderate Dutch and a radical English electoral feminism gained an important impetus at a key moment: when in 1907 the discordant entanglement of political and personal contacts between feminists on both sides of the Channel eventually led to a schism in the Dutch Society for Women’s Right to Vote.
- N. Pas, De problematische internationalisering van de Nederlandse jaren zestig – The Problematic Internationalization of 1960s Netherlands
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The grand narrative of the 1960s is of a worldwide, socio-cultural movement with a reform agenda. The year ‘1968’ plays a central role in the discourse about the ‘Sixties worldwide’. This doubles up as a reference to a socio-cultural reality on the one hand and a metaphor for change on the other. The Netherlands also had to face an expanding, selfaware youth culture, rowdy student movements, alternative lifestyles and calls for emancipation. These developments, both historically and historiographically, do not necessarily run parallel with the concept of the Global Sixties. This paper traces the progress of the study of the Netherlands in the 1960s, which was carried out from a national perspective, and examines how the research associated with it relates to the international context mentioned earlier.
Recensies
- Grijzenhout, F. (ed.), Erfgoed. De geschiedenis van een begrip
ISBN 9789053569122
K. van Berkel
- Gielen, P., De onbereikbare binnenkant van het verleden. Over de enscenering van het culturele erfgoed
ISBN 9789020967289
J.P. Sigmond
- Bruaene, A.-L. Van, Om beters wille. Rederijkerskamers en de stedelijke cultuur in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (1400-1650)
ISBN 9789053565612
E. Stronks
- Holenstein, A., Maissen, Th., Prak, M. (eds.), The Republican Alternative. The Netherlands and Switzerland compared
ISBN 9789089640055
M.C. ’t Hart
- Peeters, E., De beloften van het lichaam. Een geschiedenis van de natuurlijke levenswijze in België, 1890-1940
ISBN 9789035132931
M. Gijswijt-Hofstra
- Eickhoff, M., In naam der wetenschap? P.J.W. Debye en zijn carrière in nazi-Duitsland
F. van Lunteren
- Etambala, Z.A., De teloorgang van een modelkolonie. Belgisch Congo 1958-1960
ISBN 9789033467585
C. Klep
- Verlinden, P., Achterblijven in Congo. Een drama voor de Congolezen?
ISBN 9789058265258
C. Klep
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