Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory PDF

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) war eine britische Historikerin der frühen Neuzeit. Von 1990 bis 2011 war sie Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies und Direktorin des Centre for Editing Lives and Letters an der Queen Mary, University of London. Seit 2008 war sie Vorsitzende der Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Sie war Mitglied des Rates der Royal Institution, trat jedoch im September 2009 von diesem Posten zurück. Am 1. September 2012 zog sie mit ihrem Forschungszentrum und seinen Mitarbeitern um an das University College London (UCL) als erster Direktor seines Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Forschung in den Geisteswissenschaften.

Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory pdf von Lisa Jardine

In this book, Lisa Jardine assembles new research in political and social history, together with the histories of art, music, gardening and science, to show how Dutch tolerance, resourcefulness and commercial acumen had effectively conquered Britain long before William of Orange and his English wife arrived to rule in London. This is the remarkable story of the relationship between two of Europe's most important Read more... Abstract: In this book, Lisa Jardine assembles new research in political and social history, together with the histories of art, music, gardening and science, to show how Dutch tolerance, resourcefulness and commercial acumen had effectively conquered Britain long before William of Orange and his English wife arrived to rule in London. This is the remarkable story of the relationship between two of Europe's most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine demonstrates how individuals such as Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton and successive generations of the remarkable Huygens family, usually represented as isolated geniuses working in the enclosed environment of the country of their birth, in fact developed their ideas within a context of easy Anglo-Dutch relations that laid the vital groundwork for the European Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution.--From publisher description