The Dawn of Dutch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dawn of Dutch write by Michiel de Vaan. This book was released on 2017-12-14. The Dawn of Dutch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for traces of Frisian or Ingvaeonic in the dialects of the western Low Countries has been going on for around 150 years, but a synthesis of the available evidence has never appeared. The main aim of this book is to fill that gap. It follows the lead of many recent studies on the nature and effects of language contact situations in the past. The topic is approached from two different angles: Dutch dialectology, in all its geographic and diachronic variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. In the end, the minute details and the bigger picture merge into one possible account of the early and high medieval processes that determined the make-up of western Dutch.
Dawn of the Golden Age
Dawn of the Golden Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dawn of the Golden Age write by Wouter T. Kloek. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Dawn of the Golden Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Designed as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in 1994, this offers a survey of the paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and applied art produced 1580-1620. The book contains five essays followed by a catalogue which reproduces work from the era along with data on the artists.
Going Dutch
Going Dutch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Going Dutch write by Lisa Jardine. This book was released on 2011-02-22. Going Dutch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A thoroughly researched and provocative revisionist study.” — Wall Street Journal “Going Dutch is elegant and thought-provoking. . . . Jardine evokes a dialogue of civilizations.” — Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers “She explores the fascinating Anglo-Dutch relationship to answer how and why two sworn foes became friends so seamlessly. . . . A highly original work that will appeal to fans of Simon Schama’s The Embarrassment of Riches.” — Publishers Weekly “Jardine meticulously studies the exchange of ideas between England and Holland...she leaves no stone unturned...Absorbing, enjoyable reading.” — Kirkus Reviews “Jardine understands and appreciates her sources, and she writes exceptionally lively history. A pleasure to read, this book is enthusiastically recommended...” — Library Journal
Dawn of Courage
Dawn of Courage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dawn of Courage write by Richard S. Fuegner. This book was released on 2008. Dawn of Courage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dutch Resistance to the German Occupation of Holland 1940-45.
Tulipmania
Tulipmania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tulipmania write by Anne Goldgar. This book was released on 2008-09-15. Tulipmania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation. But it wasn’t like that. As Anne Goldgar reveals in Tulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archival research, she lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of the bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think. By clearing away the accumulated myths, Goldgar is able to show us instead the far more interesting reality: the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age. “Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: ‘Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.’. . . She tells a new story.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times
