The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was a state of contrasts. Not only did its political system combine elements from the Old Regime with the modern, postrevolutionary Napoleonic administration; it also brought together two territories with very different political backgrounds. This article explores how the new regime in the Netherlands dealt with these contrasts by focusing on the establishment of the provinces in the years 1813-1815. It argues that the appropriation of pre-modern institutions and sentiments by the authorities in post-Napoleonic Europe was an important asset for the development of the new unitary state, but that at the same time a regionally differentiated approach was indispensable to lending this policy credibility. Th...
This article examines the assumptions, beliefs, and preconceptions behind Napoleonic foreign policy ...
Historians have often portrayed the Dutch Republic as the first ‘bourgeois’ society. What they had i...
This article examines the assumptions, beliefs, and preconceptions behind Napoleonic foreign policy ...
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was a state of contrasts. Not only did its political system co...
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was a state of contrasts. Not only did its political system co...
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was a state of contrasts. Not only did its political system co...
For half a century, historians of the Low Countries have studied the decades around 1800 as a period...
In 1806 more than two centuries of the republican form of government in the Northern Netherlands cam...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...
Between 1815 and 1830 Northern and Southern members of the States General clashed over how to behave...
Between 1815 and 1830 Northern and Southern members of the States General clashed over how to behave...
Due to growing discontent about the national government in the 1780’s a revolutionary movement attem...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...
Political and Cultural Transfers in a Time of Revolution. The Netherlands 1795-1805One of the hallma...
For half a century, historians of the Low Countries have studied the decades around 1800 as a period...
This article examines the assumptions, beliefs, and preconceptions behind Napoleonic foreign policy ...
Historians have often portrayed the Dutch Republic as the first ‘bourgeois’ society. What they had i...
This article examines the assumptions, beliefs, and preconceptions behind Napoleonic foreign policy ...
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was a state of contrasts. Not only did its political system co...
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was a state of contrasts. Not only did its political system co...
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was a state of contrasts. Not only did its political system co...
For half a century, historians of the Low Countries have studied the decades around 1800 as a period...
In 1806 more than two centuries of the republican form of government in the Northern Netherlands cam...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...
Between 1815 and 1830 Northern and Southern members of the States General clashed over how to behave...
Between 1815 and 1830 Northern and Southern members of the States General clashed over how to behave...
Due to growing discontent about the national government in the 1780’s a revolutionary movement attem...
Historians have studied the regime change of 1813 in the Netherlands mainly from a national perspect...
Political and Cultural Transfers in a Time of Revolution. The Netherlands 1795-1805One of the hallma...
For half a century, historians of the Low Countries have studied the decades around 1800 as a period...
This article examines the assumptions, beliefs, and preconceptions behind Napoleonic foreign policy ...
Historians have often portrayed the Dutch Republic as the first ‘bourgeois’ society. What they had i...
This article examines the assumptions, beliefs, and preconceptions behind Napoleonic foreign policy ...