John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, 1625-1672

John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, 1625-1672
Author: Herbert Harvey Rowen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 964
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1400870917

Known to his contemporaries for his sharpness of mind, strength of purpose, fortitude, and good humor, John de Witt was a brilliant leader whose career ended in a death of horror rarely paralleled in history. Herbert Rowen's biography embraces all aspects of De Witt's political, intellectual, and personal life, including his role as a mathematician admired by Newton, an "unphilosophical Cartesian," and a political thinker. The author describes De Witt's youth, Dutch society of his day, and his central part in the domestic and foreign politics of the Dutch Republic from 1651 to 1672. He puts De Witt's relation to the House of Orange in a new light, more subtle than in the traditional history. He also examines in detail De Witt's system of government as councilor pensionary of Holland. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

John de Witt

John de Witt
Author: Herbert H. Rowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2003-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521527088

A biography of Holland's 'philosopher-king', the 'Grand Pensionary' John de Witt (1625-72).

Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History

Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History
Author: Peter Boomgaard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2011-02-24
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1139497731

Throughout all ages, the activities of mankind have weighed heavily upon the environment. In turn, changes in that environment have favoured the rise of certain social groups and limited the actions of others. Despite this, environmental history has remained a 'blind spot' for most social and economic historians. This is to be regretted, as the various and unequal effects of environmental change often explain the strengths and weaknesses of certain social groups, irrespective of their being defined along the lines of class, gender and ethnicity. This volume brings together the expertise of social and environmental historians in an effort to assess the extent to which transnational agents changed socioecological space as a consequence of globalization since the Late Middle Ages.

The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe

The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe
Author: C.E. Harline
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9401127220

Herbert Rowen has always insisted that historians don't need biographers. Outside "a small circle of family, friends and students," what matters most is not the individual but his or her work.' Thus the main purpose of the present volume is to highlight Professor Rowen's contributions to the political history of early modem Europe. Part I includes assessment of his work by others, while Parts ll-V contain examples of his best articles, papers, and reviews, some published here for the first time, most previously hard-to-get. These essays not only add substantively to our understanding of early modem politics, but treat both implicitly and explicitly the historian's task per se. Hence, this is not biography, much less "innocuous laudation" or hagiography, which Herb would not forgive. Yet it is only fitting that someone who lays so much stress on the human side of History should by way of introduction have something said about his person as well as his work.

Protestantism and Patriotism

Protestantism and Patriotism
Author: Steven C. A. Pincus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2002-05-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521893688

A detailed study of the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars and the ideological contexts in which they were fought.