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

edited by A.C. Duke, C.A. Tamse.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1977

(viii, 256 pages)

1 The English People and War in the Early Sixteenth Century --;2 Holland's Experience of War during the Revolt of the Netherlands --;3 The Army Revolt of 1647 --;4 Holland's Financial Problems (1713-1733) and the Wars against Louis XIV --;5 Municipal Government and the Burden of the Poor in South Holland during the Napoleonic Wars --;6 The Sinews of War: The Role of Dutch Finance in European Politics (c. 1750-1815) --;7 Britain and Blockade, 1780-1940 --;8 Away from Impressment: The Idea of a Royal Naval Reserve, 1696-1859 --;9 Problems of Defence in a Non-Belligerent Society: Military Service in the Netherlands during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century --;10 World War II and Social Class in Great Britain --;11 The Second World War and Dutch Society: Continuity and Change.

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.

Philosophy (General)

edited by A.C. Duke, C.A. Tamse.

A C Duke

C A Tamse

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