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Traces the story of the relationship between two of Europe's most important colonial trading powers, evaluating their role in the abdication of James II and bringing influential aspects of Dutch culture into England. By the author of The Curious Life of Robert Hooke. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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In Going Dutch, renowned writer Lisa Jardine tells the remarkable history of the relationship between England and Holland, two of Europe’s most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine, the author of The Awful End of Prince William the Silent, demonstrates that England’s rise did not come at the expense of the Dutch as is commonly thought, but was actually a “handing on” of the baton of cultural and intellectual supremacy to a nation expanding in international power and influence.
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