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
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
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)
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
Marc Saperstein. Exile in Amsterdam: Saul Levi Morteira's Sermons to a Congregation of "New Jews". Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2005. xxii + 585 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87820-457-1.
Reviewed by Susan R. Boettcher (Department of History, University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Low-Countries (August, 2008)
Preaching in Spinoza's Amsterdam
Maurits Ebben, eds., Simon Groenveld. De Scheldedelta als verbinding en scheiding tussen Noord en Zuid, 1500-1800. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing, 2007. 105 pp. EUR 36 (paper), ISBN 978-90-423-0326-3.
Reviewed by Peter Illing (Christ's College, Cambridge) Published on H-Low-Countries (January, 2008)
The Forgotten Border
Julia Adams. The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 235 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-3308-5.
Reviewed by Susan R. Boettcher (Department of History University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Low-Countries (November, 2007)
Historical Sociology vs. History
Paul Otto. The Dutch-Munsee Encounter: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley. European Expansion & Global Interaction Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. Illustrations, maps. xv + 225 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57181-672-6.
Reviewed by Andrew Lipman (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Low-Countries (June, 2007)
Janny Venema. Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652-1664. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 527 pp. $31.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7914-6080-1; $86.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7914-6079-5.
Reviewed by Mark Meuwese (Department of History, University of Winnipeg) Published on H-Low-Countries (February, 2007)
