The Dutch revolt against Spanish rule in the sixteenth century was a formative event in European history. The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt brings together in one volume the latest scholarship from leading experts in the field, to illuminate why the Dutch revolted, the way events unfolded and how they gained independence. In exploring the desire of the Dutch to control their own affairs, it also questions whether Dutch identity came about by accident.
The book makes the most recent research available in English for the first time, focusing on:
* the role of the aristocracy
* religion
* the towns and provinces
* the Spanish perspective
* finance and ideology.
Introduction, ByGraham Darby; Chapter 1 Narrative of events, ByGraham Darby; Chapter 2 Alva's Throne - making sense of the revolt of the Netherlands, ByHenk van Nierop; Chapter 3 The nobles and the revolt, ByHenk van Nierop; Chapter 4 Religion and the revolt, ByAndrew Pettegree; Chapter 5 The towns and the revolt, ByGuido Marnef; Chapter 6 The grand strategy of Philip II and the revolt of the Netherlands, ByFernando González de León, Geoffrey Parker; Chapter 7 Keeping the wheels of war turning; Revenues of the province of Holland, 1572-1619, ByJames D. Tracy; Chapter 8 From Domingo de Soto to Hugo Grotius; Theories of monarchy and civil power in Spanish and Dutch political thought, 1555-16091, ByMartin van Gelderen;
