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Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
by: Lisa Jardine

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780007197323
ISBN: 0007197322
Label: HarperPress
Manufacturer: HarperPress
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: April 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperPress
Studio: HarperPress
Sales Rank: 11004

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- Misleading and disappointing.
Do not buy this book because of its title or its dust cover picture. These appear to have been designed to sell the book, and are misleading.
"Lisa Jardine tests the traditional view that the rise of England as a world power took place at the expense of the Dutch. She finds instead that it was a handing on of the baton of cultural and intellectual supremacy to Briton....." These words from inside the dust cover contradict the book's title. England did not rob Holland of its glory. And Lisa stole the "Going Dutch" title from other earlier books.

The book is a series of essays - on the Dutch invasion of 1688, and much correspondance is used to illustrate cultural exchanges in art, horticulture, and science. There are lots of ... Read More:

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