Tag: Dutch

Free Download Richard van Leeuwen, "The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800: Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilber"
English | ISBN: 946298879X | 2019 | 176 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Antoine Galland’s French translation of the Thousand and One Nights appeared in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively correspondence on the subject with the Dutch intellectual and statesman Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716). Dutch orientalists privately owned editions of the *Nights* and discreetly collected manuscripts of Arabic fairy tales. In 1719 the Nights were first retranslated into Dutch by the wealthy Amsterdam silk merchant and financier Gilbert de Flines (Amsterdam 1690-London 1739). The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800: Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines explores not only the trail of the French and Dutch editions from the eighteenth century Dutch Republic and the role of the printers and illustrators, but also the mixed sentiments of embarrassment and appreciation, and the overall literary impact of the

Free Download Robert P. Swierenga, "The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora "
English | ISBN: 0814344178 | 2018 | 472 pages | EPUB | 39 MB
The Forerunners offers the first detailed history of the immigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora. Robert Swierenga describes the life of Jews in Holland during the Napoleonic era and examines the factors that caused them to emigrate, first to the major eastern seaboard cities of the United States, then to the frontier cities of the Midwest, and finally to San Francisco. He provides a detailed look at life among the Dutch Jews in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans.

Free Download Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism By Alexander X. Douglas
2015 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0198732503 | PDF | 4 MB
Alexander X. Douglas offers a new understanding of Spinoza’s philosophy by situating it in its immediate historical context. He defends a thesis about Spinoza’s philosophical motivations and then bases an interpretation of his major works upon it. The thesis is that much of Spinoza’s philosophy was conceived with the express purpose of rebutting a claim about the limitations of philosophy made by some of his contemporaries. They held that philosophy is intrinsically incapable of revealing anything of any relevance to theology, or in fact to any study of direct practical relevance to human life. Spinoza did not. He believed that philosophy reveals the true nature of God, and that God is nothing like what the majority of theologians, or indeed of religious believers in general, think he is. The practical implications of this change in the concept of God were profound and radical. As Douglas shows, many of Spinoza’s theories were directed towards showing how the separation his opponents endeavoured to maintain between philosophical and non-philosophical (particularly theological) thought was logically untenable.

Free Download Paul M.M. Doolan, "Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization "
English | ISBN: 9463728740 | 2021 | 334 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary approach and applying several theoretical frames from literary studies, sociology, cultural anthropology and film theory, the author reveals how mediated memories contributed to a process of what he calls "unremembering." He analyses in detail a broad variety of sources, including novels, films, documentaries, radio interviews, memoirs and historical studies, to reveal how five decades of representing and remembering decolonization fed into an unremembering by which some key notions were silenced or ignored. The author concludes that historians, or the historical guild, bear much responsibility for the unremembering of decolonization in Dutch collective memory.

Free Download The Dutch-Indonesian War 1945-49: Armies of the Indonesian War of Independence (Men-at-Arms, 550) by Marc Lohnstein, Adam Hook
English | June 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1472854748 | 48 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
Highly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in 1945.

Free Download Zac Williams, "Dutch Oven Cooking: With International Dutch Oven Society Champion Terry Lewis"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B004NSVDVU, B00E82N3K0 | EPUB | pages: 139 | 2.6 mb
Discover the endless possibilities of this traditional cookware with recipes, tips and techniques from a Dutch Oven Society World Champion.

Free Download Pieter Geyl, "History of the Dutch-Speaking Peoples 1555-1648"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 1842122258 | PDF | pages: 596 | 28.9 mb
A superb panorama of politics and war that brings together two classic volumes by Geyl: The Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609 and The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century 1609-1648. Here is the story of the Netherlanders’ epic struggle against Spain’s might and the rise of the Dutch Republic-as well as important and still pressing issues about the relationship between religion and political action, complex questions of national identity, and the problems of a small country struggling to survive in a great-power world.

Free Download Lisa Jardine, "Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0060774096, 0060774088 | PDF | pages: 440 | 20.7 mb
In Going Dutch, renowned writer Lisa Jardine tells the remarkable history of the relationship between England and Holland, two of Europe’s most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine, the author of The Awful End of Prince William the Silent, demonstrates that England’srise did not come at the expense of the Dutch as is commonly thought, but was actually a "handing on" of the baton of cultural and intellectual supremacy to a nation expanding in international power and influence.

Free Download The Syntax of Dutch by Jan-Wouter Zwart
English | 2011 | ISBN: 052187128X | 416 Pages | PDF | 3.2 MB
Dutch is a West-Germanic language closely related to English and German, but its special properties have long aroused interest and debate among students of syntax.

Free Download Routledge Intensive Dutch Course by Gerdi Quist, Christine Sas, Dennis Strik
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415261910 | 440 Pages | PDF | 3.8 MB
This intensive foundation course in Dutch is designed for those with no previous knowledge of the language.