[PDF] The Dutch Republic And The American Revolution eBook

Author : Friedrich Edler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781019201008

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Author : J. W. Schulte Nordholt
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
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This account describes both the economic support given by Dutch merchants and bankers and the struggle over Dutch recognition of the United States. The author goes beyond political history to tell his tale through cultural events, giving a realistic sense of the Dutch world at the close of the Old Regime. He also delineates the powerful impact of the American Revolution on the Dutch and the influence of the Dutch style of government on the Americans.

Author : Friedrich Edler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780266425335

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Excerpt from The Dutch Republic and the American Revolution Another European state which had been greatly offended by the treaty of Paris in 1763 was Prussia, now at the height of its prosperity and power. Frederick the Great concluded, in 1756, the Convention of Westminster With England, and the latter was his only ally during the greater part of the Seven Years' War; but when Bute replaced Pitt in the English cabinet, British policy changed. All the provisions of the Convention were broken successively by England. The subsidies to Frederick were discontinued, and a sepa rate peace was concluded with France (that of Paris in 1763) without even guaranteeing the Prussian 'dominions as had been stipulated by the Convention.2 The consequence was that Frederick conceived a strong hatred for England in general and Bute in particular, which he later transferred to Lord North. Though the Prussian king, from political reasons, abstained from taking part openly with the Ameri cans against England, he strongly sympathized with them and assisted them indirectly in many ways. In later chapters will be shown his efforts to influence the Dutch Republic against her Old ally, Great Britain. Still a third power was anxious, if not to avenge Offences committed by England, yet to recover former losses. Spain, at the end of the Spanish succession war, had ceded to Eng land the island of Minorca and her stronghold Gibraltar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Friedrich Edler, M.Dipl., Ph.D.
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2015-12-07
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ISBN : 9781347779095

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Author : Jonathan Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0300243596

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A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order - and made the Industrial Revolution possible Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for the Industrial Revolution was also the establishment in British North America of a unique type of colony - for the settlement of people and culture, rather than the extraction of things. England's republican revolution of 1649-53 was a spectacular attempt to change social, political and moral life in the direction pioneered by the Dutch. In this wide-angled and arresting book Jonathan Scott argues that it was also a turning point in world history. In the revolution's wake, competition with the Dutch transformed the military-fiscal and naval resources of the state. One result was a navally protected Anglo-American trading monopoly. Within this context, more than a century later, the Industrial Revolution would be triggered by the alchemical power of American shopping