H-Low-Countries Book Reviews
Reviewer:
Andrew J. Kettler
Kettler on Helmers and Janssen, 'The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age'
Helmer J. Helmers, Geert H. Janssen, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xix + 428 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-62353-4.
Reviewed by Andrew J. Kettler (UCLA) Published on H-Low-Countries (November, 2019) Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr
Reviewer:
Jazmine Contreras
Contreras on Faber and Stolk, 'Escaping Occupied Europe: A Dutchman's Dangerous Journey to Join the Allies'
Hylke Faber, Pieter Stolk, eds. Escaping Occupied Europe: A Dutchman's Dangerous Journey to Join the Allies. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books, 2018. 152 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5267-4123-3.
Reviewed by Jazmine Contreras (Department of History, University of Minnesota) Published on H-Low-Countries (June, 2019) Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr
Reviewer:
Christine Kooi
Kooi on Hout, 'Adriaen van der Donck: A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America'
J. van den Hout. Adriaen van der Donck: A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018. xvi + 203 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6922-5.
Reviewed by Christine Kooi (LSU) Published on H-Low-Countries (December, 2018) Commissioned by Hubert P. Van Tuyll (Georgia Regents University)
Reviewer:
Mark Meuwese
Meuwese on Wielenga, 'A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day'
Friso Wielenga. A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day. Translated from the Dutch by Lynne Richards. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Illustrations, maps. 344 pp. $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4725-6959-2; $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4725-6960-8.
Reviewed by Mark Meuwese (University of Winnipeg) Published on H-Low-Countries (October, 2017) Commissioned by Hubert P. Van Tuyll
Reviewer:
Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard
Cloutier-Blazzard on Strickland, 'The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch: Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation'
Debra Higgs Strickland. The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch: Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History Series. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. Illustrations. 301 pp. $143.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-909400-55-9.
Reviewer:
Jessica V. Roitman
Roitman on Wekker, 'White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race'
Gloria Wekker. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. xiii + 226 pp. $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-6075-9.
Reviewed by Jessica V. Roitman (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)) Published on H-Low-Countries (May, 2017) Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan
Reviewer:
Jessica V. Roitman
Roitman on Lipschits, 'Undeliverable: A Letter of Reminiscence'
Isaac Lipschits. Undeliverable: A Letter of Reminiscence. Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold. London: Gainsborough House Press, 2015. 84 pp. $11.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-909719-08-8.
Reviewed by Jessica V. Roitman (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)) Published on H-Low-Countries (August, 2016) Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan
Memoir of a Youth Cut Short
Reviewer:
Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard
Cloutier-Blazzard on Oeke Hoogendijk, 'The New Rijksmuseum'
Oeke Hoogendijk. The New Rijksmuseum. First Run Features, 2015. Documentary film, DVD, 131 min.
Reviewed by Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard Published on H-Low-Countries (July, 2016) Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan
Capturing the Rijksmuseum Reconstruction on Film
Reviewer:
Mark Meuwese
Meuwese on Wasserstein, 'The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews'
Bernard Wasserstein. The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 352 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-28138-7.
Reviewed by Mark Meuwese (University of Winnipeg) Published on H-Low-Countries (January, 2016) Commissioned by Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan
Revisiting Dutch-Jewish Responses to Nazism
Reviewer:
Mark Meuwese
Meuwese on Burke Jr, 'Mohawk Frontier: The Dutch Community of Schenectady, New York, 1661-1710' and Jacobs, 'The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America' and Panetta, 'Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture'
Thomas E. Burke Jr. Mohawk Frontier: The Dutch Community of Schenectady, New York, 1661-1710. Second Edition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. Maps, figures, tables. xxiv + 252 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-2706-5.Jaap Jacobs. The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America.
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