Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments
Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments
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USDThis history of the States General of the Netherlands and its relations with the monarchy involves the dukes of Burgundy and the Spanish Habsburgs in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. After more than a century of mainly peaceful cooperation, the two sides quarrelled violently about religion, sovereignty and local privileges, and decades of civil war led to a split in the country. The North became a republic and a parliamentary regime, while the South remained attached to the Spanish monarchy and continued without the States General.
- A deeply researched history of the Netherlands parliament through successive monarchical rules, comparing the history of the Netherlands with other European countries
- Covers objectively the violent quarrels of the period about religion, sovereignty and local privileges with a libertarian bias
- The work of one of Britain's most respected senior historians and the fruit of decades of reflection and research
Reviews & endorsements
'… the reader is rewarded … with a magisterial sweep and expert grasp based on many decades of uninterrupted research and reflection on the themes in question.' The Times Literary Supplement
'… he has not only helped to discover similarities between the States General before and after the Revolt of the Netherlands, but also put into sharper focus major differences between the two periods.' Parliaments, Estates and Representation
'… an important scholarly contribution …' Reviews in History
Product details
December 2007Paperback
9780521044370
408 pages
228 × 152 × 27 mm
0.6kg
21 b/w illus. 4 maps
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Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Maps
- 1. Prologue
- 2. The beginnings of the States General
- 3. The first crisis (1477–94)
- 4. The Netherlands becomes part of a composite monarchy (1506–31): Philip the Handsome (1494–1506)
- 5. Dominium politicum et regale in a composite monarchy: the regencies of Margaret of Austria (1507–30)
- 6. Dominium politicum et regale in a composite monarchy: the regency of Mary of Hungary, I (1531–50)
- 7. The Netherlands at the centre of the Habsburg composite monarchy: the regency of Mary of Hungary, II (1550–5)
- 8. The Netherlands at the centre of the Habsburg composite monarchy: the governor-generalship of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy (1555–9)
- 9. Rule from Madrid: the regency of Margaret of Parma (1559–67)
- 10. The governor-generalships of the duke of Alba (1567–73) and of Don Luis de Requesens (1573–6)
- 11. The beginnings of parliamentary government: Holland and Zeeland (1572–6)
- 12. Rule by the States General: myths and realities (1576–81)
- 13. Parliamentary government and dominium regale (1580–1600)
- 14. Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
