History of the United Netherlands
From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce – 1609

This four-volume history explains the lead up to the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp, which recognized Holland's independence from Spanish rule.

John Lothrop Motley (Author)

9781108036634, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 November 2011

578 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.73 kg

American historian John Lothrop Motley (1814–77) graduated from Harvard in 1831. During 1832 and 1833 he studied in Göttingen before returning to the United States. Already the author of two novels and numerous essays, he began to plan a history of the Netherlands, but, unable to find all the source material he needed in America, he returned to Europe in 1851, this time with his family. His first book on the subject was the widely acclaimed Rise of the Dutch Republic, which covered events up to 1584. Motley published this more ambitious four-volume sequel, covering events in the period 1584–1609, between 1860 and 1867. Volume 2 covers the period 1586–9, describing the intensification of conflict between the allied English and Dutch and Spain, and includes an account of England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.

9. Military plans in the Netherlands
10. Should Elizabeth accept the Sovereignty?
11. Drake in the Netherlands
12. Ill-timed interregnum in the Province
13. Barneveld's influence in the Provinces
14. Leicester in England
15. Buckhurst sent to the Netherlands
16. Situation of Sluys
17. Secret treating between Queen and Parma
18. Prophecies as to the year 1588
19. Philip Second in his Cabinet
20. Alexander besieges Bergen-op-Zoom.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]