John de Witt: Statesman of the "True Freedom"Cambridge University Press, 13 de nov. 2003 - 248 pàgines If the combination of superb political skills and a powerful intelligence were enough to make a 'philosopher-king' such as Plato dreamed of, the Dutch 'Grand Pensionary' John de Witt (1625-72) would fit the prescription as well as any statesman in history. Manoeuvring among the powers of Europe in the period of France's growing ascendancy, and facing the bitter commercial and political rivalry of the English, he managed to preserve the eminent position the United Provinces had reached when Spain recognized their independence at Munster in 1648. Not until the kings of France and England combined against the Republic in 1672 did De Witt's political system, called the 'True Freedom' and consisting of the maximum autonomy of the provinces and the exclusion of Prince William III of Orange from high office, collapse during the French invasion, an event accompanied by the horrific assassination of De Witt and his brother Cornelius. |
Continguts
To the threshold 16251650 | 4 |
Apprenticeship of power 16511653 | 16 |
The first task 16531654 | 35 |
The man of thought | 52 |
Consolidation of the True Freedom 16541660 | 64 |
The challenge of Stuart and Orange 16601664 | 90 |
The humbling of the foe 16651667 | 113 |
snarling peace 16657667 | 127 |
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John de Witt, Statesman of the "true Freedom" Herbert Harvey Rowen Previsualització no disponible - 1986 |
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Referències a aquest llibre
The Way the Modern World Works: World Hegemony to World Impasse Peter J. Taylor Visualització de fragments - 1996 |
Jan de Witt’s Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus: Text, Translation ... Albertus W. Grootendorst Previsualització no disponible - 2000 |