Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 127, Issue 3, 2014

Abstract This article focuses on the repression following the Brussels revolt of 1717-19, and reflects upon the sphere of action of early modern governments in composite monarchies. This insurrection has often been presented as a personal struggle between guild dean Anneessens and Minister Plenipotentiary Prié. I argue that in order to understand the curbing of the disorders, many more (f)actors have to be taken into Read More

Abstract The phenomenon of pillarization is a process of social division according to party-political lines that developed at the end of the nineteenth and in the first half of the twentieth century in Belgium and the Netherlands. Parties created networks to provide for their supporters from the cradle to the grave. The literature on this subject does not show whether contemporaries were conscious of the so-called pillars. By mak Read More

Abstract This article explores the inner world of the German army of occupation in the Netherlands. To this end it discusses the strengths and weaknesses of German Feldpost letters as historical sources. Feldpost letters have important advantages over retrospective accounts such as veteran interviews. In some cases they reveal otherwise hardly accessible spheres of experience: they record instant processes of sens Read More

AbstractSeventy years ago, on 6 June 1944, the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy. For long, especially during the Cold War, Western historians saw this as the decisive turning point of the Second World War. However, more recent historiography suggests that the fundamental battles were fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, on the Eastern Front. It was here that the majority of the Wehrmacht f Read More

Abstract Until 2013 Dutch biographers neglected the lives of the first three kings of the Netherlands. Three experienced historians have now written well-researched and innovative biographies which raise this genre of historiography to a high level. Within the large United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-30) the autocratic William I presented himself as the father of the national household. William II posed as a triumpha Read More

AbstractNatalie Zemon Davis (1928) is known as one of the most creative and influential historians in the field of academic and popular history. Over the last four decades, she has published nine monographs and over seventy articles, many of which have become classics in the study of early modern history and gender. In this interview, Davis discusses her current research project on the plantations of eighteenth-century Read More