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Britain and the Netherlands

Volume VI: War and Society. Papers Delivered to the Sixth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference

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  1. A. C. Duke
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  2. C. A. Tamse
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The English People and War in the Early Sixteenth Century

    • C. S. L. Davies
    Pages 1-18

  3. Holland’s Experience of War during the Revolt of the Netherlands

    • A. Th. van Deursen
    Pages 19-53

  4. The Army Revolt of 1647

    • J. S. Morrill
    Pages 54-78

  5. Holland’s Financial Problems (1713–1733) and the Wars against Louis XIV

    • J. Aalbers
    Pages 79-93

  6. Municipal Government and the Burden of the Poor in South Holland during the Napoleonic Wars

    • S. Schama
    Pages 94-123

  7. The Sinews of War: The Role of Dutch Finance in European Politics (c. 1750–1815)

    • M. G. Buist
    Pages 124-140

  8. Britain and Blockade, 1780–1940

    • G. F. A. Best
    Pages 141-167

  9. Away from Impressment: The Idea of a Royal Naval Reserve, 1696–1859

    • J. S. Bromley
    Pages 168-188

  10. Problems of Defence in a Non-belligerent Society: Military Service in the Netherlands during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

    • F. C. Spits
    Pages 189-202

  11. World War II and Social Class in Great Britain

    • A. Marwick
    Pages 203-227

  12. The Second World War and Dutch Society: Continuity and Change

    • J. C. H. Blom
    Pages 228-248

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 249-256
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War has ever exercised a great appeal on men's minds. Oscar Wilde's witticism notwithstanding this fascination cannot be attri­ buted simply to the wicked character of war. The demonic forces released by war have caught the artistic imagination, while sages have reflected on the enigmatic readiness of each new generation to wage war, despite the destruction, disillusion and exhaustion that war is known to bring in its train. If there never was a good war and a bad peace why did armed conflicts recur with such distressing regularity? Was large-scale violence an intrinsic condition of Man? The answers given to such questions have differed widely: it has even been suggested that the states of war and peace are not as far removed from one another as is usually supposed. The causes of war and the interaction between war and society have long been the subject of philosophical enquiry and historical analysis. Accord­ ing to Thucydides no one was ever compelled to go to war; Cicero remarked how dumb were the laws in time of war, while Clausewitz's profound observation concerning the affinity between war and politics has become almost a commonplace. War being the severest test a society or state can experience historians have naturally been concerned to investigate their rela­ tionship.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Britain and the Netherlands

  • Book Subtitle: Volume VI: War and Society. Papers Delivered to the Sixth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference

  • Editors: A. C. Duke, C. A. Tamse

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7518-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-0002-3Published: 01 January 1977

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7518-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 256

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy, general

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